Evening in Navajo Land
Artist
Laura Gilpin
(American, 1891 - 1979)
Date1933
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 × 11 7/8 in. (21.6 × 30.2 cm)
Support: 9 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (23.5 × 31.8 cm)
Mat: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
Support: 9 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (23.5 × 31.8 cm)
Mat: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Jill Warren, 2015
Object number2015.11.2
DescriptionSilhouette of woman holding child around center of composition. Figures are alone in a Southwestern landscape, with a mesa visible in the distance at the left and a probably juniper in the middle ground at far right. Most of the picture is filled with dramatic cloud formations at sunset.eMuseum Notes
This
photograph was made during the Depression years when Gilpin was living in her
hometown of Colorado Springs and trying to support herself and her father. It
may have been part of a set of images she made about the contemporary Navajo
that was available for sale and rental for educational lectures. Gilpin later
lived on Navajo lands for many years and photographed the people extensively.
In 1968, she published a book of these images, “The Enduring Navajo.”
On View
Not on viewTerms
Steve Fitch
Negative 1983, print 2021
