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Spectators at a Winter Ceremonial, Taos Pueblo
Spectators at a Winter Ceremonial, Taos Pueblo
Spectators at a Winter Ceremonial, Taos Pueblo

Spectators at a Winter Ceremonial, Taos Pueblo

Artist (American, 1868 - 1956)
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions25 1/4 x 46 inches (64.1 x 116.8 cm)
Frame: 32 1/8 × 54 1/4 × 3 inches (81.6 × 137.8 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchased by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1978
Object number31.6.5
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextIn this painting, Phillips concentrates on observers of, rather than participants in, Pueblo ceremonies or dances. The artist gives a sense of the many different experiences at a ceremony. Native people wrapped in conventional shawls or blankets observe from the top of a pueblo. Some talk and gesture while others observe in solemnity. Phillips paints with a modern simplification of form. He also presents a new image of the Indian to the viewer—one where Native peoples are not dressed in fringed buckskin and feathers.
ProvenancePhillips family collection; by inheritance to grandson William J. Beutler, Mesa, Arizona; purchased by (Gerald Peters, Santa Fe, New Mexico); (Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, 1975); purchased by Wally Sargent, Santa Fe, New Mexico; (Jim Fowler's Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1978); purchased by (Gerald P. Peters, Santa Fe, New Mexico); purchased February 10, 1978 by the Nelda C. and H.J Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
On View
On view
The Flute Player
Bert Geer Phillips
between 1911 and 1917
Pueblo Ceremonial Dance No. 107
Gerard Curtis Delano
after 1940
End of the Harvest, Taos Pueblo
Ernest Martin Hennings
c. 1922
Taos Pueblo, World War II
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
c. 1943
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