Corn Mother is a 1971 R.C. Gorman stone lithograph from his early Homage to Navajo Women Suite. A woman sits quietly in a sage-green dress, her necklace and bracelet catching the light as a woven basket heavy with corn rests in her lap — a harvest image of plenty rendered with the spare, monumental line of Gorman’s first mature period. The warm cream ground carries subtle stylized patterning, and the artist’s signature marks the lower right.
Printed in an edition of only 70, Corn Mother belongs to the suite that established Gorman’s reputation in fine printmaking. It is a foundational acquisition for collectors of early R.C. Gorman lithographs, Native American women portraits, and Southwestern harvest imagery.
