Acoma Legend

Artist Mary Greene Blumenschein (1869 New York, New York - 1958 Taos, New Mexico)

Date1932

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions50 × 45 in. (127 × 114.3 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Lovelace Medical Foundation

Object numberPC1990.61.1

Descriptionthree figures are in a pueblo style house in front of an horno with an open window to snowy abstracted mountain forms. One man kneels on top of a pile of corn and dumps out more corn that he has gathered; the figure above labeled "NORTH WIND" blows air towards the man with the corn and a woman kneels below with her palms raised towards the man with the corn.

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