Corn Woman

Corn Woman, a 1985 R.C. Gorman lithograph, shows a Navajo woman seated on the ground beside a tipped-over woven burden basket spilling dozens of ruby and cream speckled corn ears across the pink desert floor. She wears a rose and mauve textured blouse graded into violet, paired with a soft cream-ivory skirt, her dark hair pulled into a tidy low bun. The twilight sky rises through lavender, peach, and apricot behind her, and a long cool shadow stretches beneath the figure. Gorman lets the harvest spill carry the narrative weight, the woman turning gently toward her abundance. A must-have acquisition for collectors of Gorman lithographs, Southwest fine art, and Native American figurative prints.