Homage to Navajo Women (Portfolio)

Description

Author: Gorman, R.C. (Rudoph Carl) (1932-2005)

Publisher: Tamarind Institute

Pub Date: 1972

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  No binding to speak of, just the stiff paper folded cover.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Lower front cover corner is very slightly curled, not bent, just a dip.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Postcard (?) portfolio.  Six 5½” x 8½” cards announcing the printing of Gorman’s suite of lithographs of Navajo women.  Only 70 sets of the lithographs were printed, and they now sell in the multi-thousand dollar range.  These cards were probably designed and printed (in black-and-white) as an advertisement, and sent to the Tamarind’s mailing list.  “Hi, look at this.  Wanna buy a set?”  The portfolio was undoubtedly printed in the hundreds (thousands?), but is scarce today.  One postcard of Gorman at work (with a brief biography of the artist on the reverse), 5 of Navajo women (see photo above).  The lithographic stones and plates were “effaced.”