Crystal

Crystal, a 1997 R.C. Gorman lithograph, centers a Navajo woman seated with her back to the viewer on the rise of a sage dotted desert at twilight, her long jet-black hair falling down her back past a woven red and green sash whose long tassels drape across the white folds of her skirt. She wears a warm coral red blouse, and a shooting star streaks across the deep cobalt sky to her right, a thin scatter of stars above the rolling purple hills. Gorman graduates the horizon through apricot, rose, and lavender, carrying the viewer’s eye toward the same distant point she studies. A must-have acquisition for collectors of Gorman lithographs, Southwest fine art, and Native American figurative prints.