Hopi Women Carrying Water Vessels, c. 1920

East Building, Ground Level — Gallery 106-A

Medium

transparent and opaque watercolor with brush and black ink over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 19.05 × 19.37 cm (7 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 28.58 × 36.2 cm (11 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Amelia E. White)

Accession Number

2015.19.390

Artists / Makers

Fred Kabotie (artist) Hopi, 1900 - 1986

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Inscription

lower right in black gouache: Fred Kabotie; lower left in graphite by uknown hand: EYB [erased]; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 346 [upsdie down]; left center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 98442-3 [not deciphered]

Provenance

Amelia Elizabeth White, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1937; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
White, Amelia E.

Exhibition History

1977: Fred Kabotie—Hopi Artist, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, 1977-1978

1980: Symbols and Scenes: Art By and About American Indians, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980 (as "Water Carriers")

2024: "American Modernism. Borderlands: Expanded Visions of the Southwest," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 15, 2024–January 10, 2025.

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 194, no. 1313.