Lena

“Lena,” a 1986 lithograph by R.C. Gorman, depicts a seated woman in a white long-sleeve blouse and soft lavender-pink skirt, her head tilted back with eyes gently closed as she runs her fingers through extraordinarily long, dark hair that pools across her lap and spills to the ground. The composition is bathed in a breathtaking sunset gradient moving from deep violet-purple at the crown through warm rose-gold and amber, lending the figure an ethereal, meditative presence. The interplay between the pale garments and the glowing warm sky creates a delicate luminosity characteristic of Gorman’s finest figurative lithographs. A compelling acquisition for collectors of Gorman lithographs, Southwest fine art, and Native American figurative prints.