Pueblo Indian Portfolio Image #47 [SOLD]

Between 1929 and 1952, C. Szwedzicki, a publisher in Nice, France, produced six portfolios of North American Indian art. American Scholars Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Hartley Burr Alexander and Kenneth Milton Chapman edited the publications. Many of the images were published as pochoir prints which are similar in appearance to silkscreen prints. These works represent original works by 20^th Century American Indian artists.

One of the portfolios was “Pueblo Indian Painting: 50 Reproductions of Watercolor Paintings by Indian Artists of the New Mexican Pueblos of San Ildefonso and Sia.” It was published in 1932.

This image, plate #47, illustrates the sun-disk rising from the body of the Avanyu shown with bird attributes. It is one of the sacred pictures of the Snow-bird ceremony. The image was printed on off-white paper. There is a tear in the paper at the center of the bottom edge. The imagery is not affected. The damage is restricted to an area that can easily be covered by proper matting of the print. This image is framed. Copyright by C. Szwedzicki. 1932 appears on verso.