Indian Bear Dance (Color Study for Hot Springs, New Mexico Post Office Mural)

Boris Deutsch, Indian Bear Dance (Color Study for Hot Springs, New Mexico Post Office Mural), ca. 1940, crayon, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Boris Deutsch, 1981.132.1
Boris Deutsch, Indian Bear Dance (Color Study for Hot Springs, New Mexico Post Office Mural), ca. 1940, crayon, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper mounted on paperboard, sheet: 20 1⁄2 x 42 in. (52.1 x 106.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Boris Deutsch, 1981.132.1

Artwork Details

Title
Indian Bear Dance (Color Study for Hot Springs, New Mexico Post Office Mural)
Artist
Date
ca. 1940
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 20 1⁄2 x 42 in. (52.1 x 106.7 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Boris Deutsch
Mediums
Mediums Description
crayon, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper mounted on paperboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • New Deal
  • Landscape — New Mexico — Hot Springs
  • Ceremony — dance — Bear Dance
  • Study — mural study
  • Indian
  • Figure group
Object Number
1981.132.1
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1981.132.1

Works by this artist (1 item)

Teresa Barkley, Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon, 1989, hand-quilted, machine-pieced and reverse-appliqued cotton, polyester, rayon, silk and lurex, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. McLaughlin, Karen E. Schaeffer and Jane M. Lamb, 1998.112, © 1989, Teresa Barkley
Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon
Artist
Date1989
hand-quilted, machine-pieced and reverse-appliqued cotton, polyester, rayon, silk and lurex
Not on view

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