Woman from Canyon de Chelly St I is a 1978 R.C. Gorman stone lithograph uniting two icons of the Southwest: the artist’s monumental woman and the red rock walls of Canyon de Chelly. The figure stands straight and elegant in black drapery accented with silver and turquoise — a substantial necklace and bold earrings — while the warm red canyon wall rises behind her, its banded stone filling the ground with color. The artist’s signature marks the lower right.
From an edition of 125, St I is the first state of one of Gorman’s most place-specific portraits, prized by collectors of Canyon de Chelly imagery, Navajo portraiture, and late-1970s R.C. Gorman lithographs.
