Original Aquatint Etching entitled "Listening Woman" [SOLD]

Changing Woman, Medicine Woman and Listening Woman by Helen Hardin (1943-1984) Tsa-Sah-Wee-Eh - Little Standing Spruce.  Of the totality of Hardin's work in etching, these three images stand as the pinnacle of her achievement. Superlative in every aspect, these personal deity figures stand as eternal and personal revelators of the very character and essence of Hardin's work as an artist, as a Pueblo person, as a woman.

Each of these etchings is created in etching/aquatint from copper plates, printed in ochre, English red, Midnight blue, Sepia, and alizarin crimson on various types of rag printmaking papers. Each work is characteristically precise and visually taut, reaching for a certain perfection of image and execution, with graphic contour lines, interior linear embellishments, and the finest of subtleties and nuances of color.

Superb individually, and absolutely breathtaking as a whole, this rare grouping consists of a total of only 65 printed copies of each subject.  This Original Aquatint Etching entitled Listening Woman is number 59 of 65.

Condition: original condition

Provenance: from the collection of a client from Colorado in the process of moving to Pennsylvania

Recommended Reading:  Changing Woman: The Life and Art of Helen Hardin by Jay Scott