R.C.Gorman Crescent Moon Paper Cast Hand Signed Original Art

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"Crescent Moon" framed
by R.C Gorman
Original Limited Edition Paper Cast
Hand signed by the artist
Image Size: 32" x … Read more "Crescent Moon" framed
by R.C Gorman
Original Limited Edition Paper Cast
Hand signed by the artist
Image Size: 32" x 34"
Frame Size: 39" x 44"
museum mounted, matted and custom framed
Edition Number: 2/150
Year: 1987
100 percent guarantee of authenticity
Condition: Good
Certificate of Authenticity and appraisal is included.
Gallery Retail is $2,500.00
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R. C. Gorman

Painter, Sculptor (1931–2005)

Artist R.C. Gorman was born in Chinle, Arizona, on July 26, 1931. Descended from generations of Navajo craftsmen, holy men, and tribal leaders, he was encouraged by a teacher at a mission school to develop his talent for art. After several years in the US Navy, he attended Arizona State College (now Northern Arizona University), but it was a visit to Mexico (1958) and then a year at the Mexico City College (now University of the Americas) that fixed his desire to be an artist.


After spending several years in San Francisco developing as a painter, he moved to Taos, NM. In 1965 he received a one-man exhibition in the Manchester Gallery there, and by 1968 his work was enjoying enough success that he bought the gallery, changed its name to Navajo Gallery, and began to exhibit and sell his own and other artists' work. The gallery was the first in the United States to be owned by a Native American. It remained for many years as his residence, studio, and gallery, where he was often present to deal personally with the growing numbers of other artists and the public who came by. From the 1970s, as his reputation spread throughout the USA and abroad, he moved on from working with oil, acrylic, and pastel to lithographs, ceramics, and occasional sculptures. Although he usually drew on SW Native American themes, he transformed them by his art into more universally significant, and aesthetic, subjects. See less