Rudolph Carl Gorman (New Mexico/Arizona/California, 1932-2005) color lithograph in black, brown, and turquoise ink on buff arches paper with deckled edge at top and bottom and titled "Anaba," numbered 85/130. Image depicts a seated Navajo woman with black hair and a turquoise earring, facing right. Signed and dated "R. C. Gorman 1980," in pencil, lower left, numbered, in pencil, lower right. Float framed in a modern burlwood frame on cream mat. Includes extensive print documentation from Western Graphics lithography workshop, who published the print, along with a matted photomechanical reproduction of another Gorman artwork and a general informational sheet concerning the artist. This print is identified in the Western Graphics documentation as the second state and as printed by master printer Russell Hamilton and printer Richard Blanchard. With embossed workshop, artist, and printer chop marks. Sheet: 22 1/4" H x 30" W. Framed: 29 5/16" H x 36 5/8" W. Note: Gorman, a celebrated Navajo artist, is well known for his depictions of Native American subjects like this one and was the founder of the R. C. Gorman Navajo Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, the first Taos gallery run by a native gallerist.

PROVENANCE: The collection of the late Fount and Ida Smothers, Thompson's Station, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both print and frame appear to be in excellent condition. Not examined outside of frame.