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THBR. C. Gorman (1931-2005) Navajo, Figural Serigraph
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJun 7, 2025
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R. C. Gorman (1931-2005) Navajo, Figural Serigraph. A blue-tinted Native woman with her back to the audience. Signature bottom left in print.
Overall Size: 26 1/4 x 32 1/4 in.
Sight Size: 22 x 27 3/4 in.
Rudolph Carl Gorman was born on July 26th, 1931 in Chinle, Arizona. His father was one of the original twenty-nine Navajo Code Talkers in World War II, and he grew up in a traditional Navajo hogan. His grandmother helped raise him and encouraged his drawing when he started at the age of three, recounting Navajo legends and enumerating his genealogy of artist ancestors. While tending sheep in Canyon de Chelly with his aunts he used to draw on the rocks, sand, and mud, and made sculptures with the clay, with his earliest subjects including Mickey Mouse and Shirley Temple. He credited a teacher, Jenny Lind at Ganado Presbyterian Mission School, for his inspiration to become a full-time artist. After he left high school, he served in the United States Navy before entering college, where he majored in literature and minored in art at Northern Arizona University. In 1958 he received the first scholarship from the Navajo Tribal Council to study outside of the United States, and enrolled in the art program at Mexico City College. There he learned of and was influenced by the work of Diego Rivera. While studying art at San Francisco State University he began working as a model as well, and was one of the first openly gay Native American artists in the contemporary art community. He had his first public exhibition by an established gallery in 1963, with a career lasting over four decades. Much of his work was renowned for his distinctive depictions of Navajo women, primarily in painting and lithography, characterized by bold colors, fluid lines, and a focus on the grace and dignity of his subjects. Often referred to as the “Picasso of American Indian Art,” Gorman’s pieces gained international acclaim, with exhibitions in major galleries worldwide. In addition to his art, Gorman was also a philanthropist, supporting various Native American causes and artists, and was an avid lover of cuisine, authoring four cookbooks, (with accompanying drawings) called Nudes and Food. Over his lifetime he produced more than 500 lithographic and serigraphic works, at least 28 Bronze Sculptures, as well as an unknown number of papercasts, ceramic editions, tapestries, glass etchings, and one-of-a-kind oil and acrylic paintings, oil pastel drawings, and sketches. His Navajo Gallery, opened in Taos, New Mexico in 1968, was the first Native American-owned art gallery in the United States, and paved the way for generations of future indigenous artists. He died in the University of New Mexico Hospital after complications from a fall at his home on November 3rd, 2005. Governor Bill Richardson ordered flags to be flown at half-staff, and he is considered one of the most pivotal Native American artists of the 20th Century, with much of his work still on display in museums around the globe.
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26 1/4 x 32 1/4 in.
