Two Kossa, c. 1925

East Building, Ground Level — Gallery 106-A

Medium

pen and brush and black ink with watercolor over graphite on card

Dimensions

image (irregular): 19.05 × 19.69 cm (7 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)

sheet: 28.89 × 36.35 cm (11 3/8 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Amelia E. White)

Accession Number

2015.19.381

Artists / Makers

Awa Tsireh (artist) San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1898 - 1955

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: Awa Tsireh-; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand [upside down]: IX 396 - 3 [not deciphered]; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 51-83 / $12.00

Marks and Labels

None.

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

1931: The Exposition of Tribal Indian Arts, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1931

1972: Arts of the American Indian, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, 1972

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. 188, no. 1266.