Original Acrylic Painting of a Heartline Deer by Helen Hardin [SOLD]

Special Offer: The consignor has requested that we post a price reduction on this painting from the original price of $11,500 to a new price of $7,500.

It is well documented that Helen Hardin started her art career painting in the traditional pueblo style that all artists of her period practiced, and that was being painted by her own mother, Pablita Velarde. She then developed her own unique, highly structured and linear style in succeeding years.

When Hardin did express herself as an artist, her art was based on pueblo social and religious life as she remembered it growing up in the pueblo. Her style was far from other pueblo artists featuring similar paintings. She was presenting the traditional in a contemporary manner.

Hardin’s paintings, even though based on pueblo religious art, are accepted by mainstream collectors, who may know nothing about pueblo religion or its significance, because of their striking beauty. One need not understand their meaning to appreciate their appeal. Early in her career, her paintings sold as fast as she could produce them. Their appeal has not diminished today. This painting ranks high in desirability among her works.

The painting is in original excellent condition and in the original frame. It was purchased in the late 1970s by the current owner. It features the image of a heartline deer of the style often seen on pueblo pottery. All the colors used in the image are the browns and soft colors of autumn. The frame even echoes those colors.