HORSE TAIL DANCE

Taos, New Mexico: Anna Barry, 1946. Original serigraph/ silkscreen print, signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The image is 5 inches by 7 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 6 inches by 8 1/2 inches. The Taos Pueblo people have lived in New Mexico more than 1000 years. The serigraph portrays Taos Pueblo male dancers performing a traditional ceremonial dance in which men wear simulated horsetails--they originally wore real horsetails! The serigraph is by American painter and printmaker Anna Barry (1907-2001). With her husband and fellow artist Ira Moscowitz, she lived in Taos, New Mexico from 1944 until 1955. During that time she studied Native American cultures and produced a series of serigraphs and lithographs depicting those cultures. Among the U. S. art museums whose collections include Barry's serigraphs are the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. The serigraph offered here is in about very good condition: clean and bright, with browning on the back of the print. It is now packaged together with microchamber rag paper to deacidify the print.. SIGNED. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good-. Illus. by Anna Barry. 5 inches by 7 1/4 Inches. Fine Art Print.