Acoma Legend

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

Date1932

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionssight: 49 1/2 × 44 1/2 in. (125.7 × 113 cm)
frame: 52 1/2 × 47 1/2 × 1 in. (133.4 × 120.7 × 2.5 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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