Two Kossa
c. 1925
Artist, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1898 - 1955
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brush and black ink with watercolor over graphite on card
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 19.05 × 19.69 cm (7 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)
sheet: 28.89 × 36.35 cm (11 3/8 × 14 5/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.381
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Amelia Elizabeth White, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1937; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
The Exposition of Tribal Indian Arts, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1931
1972
Arts of the American Indian, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, 1972
2024
"American Modernism. Borderlands: Expanded Visions of the Southwest," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 15, 2024–January 10, 2025.
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 188, no. 1266.
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: Awa Tsireh-; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand [upside down]: IX 396 - 3 [not deciphered]; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 51-83 / $12.00
Markings
None.
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q64537079