Stone Lithograph entitled “Indian Market” [SOLD]

Santa Fe Indian Market is the highlight of the summer season in Santa Fe.  There are a couple hundred thousand collectors, tourists, and inquisitive visitors in this town of 70,000 residents.  Navigating the streets and roads and negotiating for restaurant reservations is all part of the fun even though it might be somewhat frustrating to newcomers, but old seasoned visitors go with the flow.

Bradley has given us just a glimpse of Indian Market with the cowboy with his camera negotiating with a potter who has already heard it all but patiently listens as he tries to get a better price.  Perhaps that is his wife at the next booth, in her high heels and shorts, negotiating for jewelry with a patient Navajo vendor.

As Bradley stated "I do like to have fun with my art and I like to find humor.  In some paintings I try to put humor in, but there are also some very grave, serious symbols there, too.  I'll put symbols in my paintings that might suggest the state of the world today.  Even though it's a scene from the Old West, all of a sudden it will relate to what's going on today."  Samuels, 1982.

This image illustrates (see below) the 61^st Annual Indian Market.  Since the Santa Fe Indian Market started in 1922 that would place this image around 1983.

Condition:  the lithograph is floated in the frame so no acid-bearing matboard has touched the paper.  It is in original condition

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust