Spectators at a Winter Ceremonial, Taos Pueblo

Artist Bert Geer Phillips (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

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