Concho

Concho, a 1979 R.C. Gorman lithograph, portrays a Navajo woman kneeling low to the ground with her hand tenderly raised to her face, dressed in a rich coral pink blouse bordered with a striking black and silver concha belt panel. A full cream-ivory blanket drapes across her lap and legs, her bare feet tucked beneath her, while her black hair is gathered into a low bun ribboned in white. Set against a warm buff and sand ground with no landscape, the piece reads as a study of reverence and repose, the concha band providing the only strong chromatic contrast. Gorman’s colored-pencil hatching gives the drapery a tactile softness. A must-have acquisition for collectors of Gorman lithographs, Southwest fine art, and Native American figurative prints.