Fall Corn Dance
1938
Waldo Mootzka
Hopi Pueblo, ca. 1903-1940
Arts of the Americas
This painting depicts the performers of the Fall Corn Dance. Waldo Mootza omitted the background in his images, thereby emphasizing the figures while adding a timeless quality. His paintings nevertheless mirror reality, as seen here in the fine details of the woven designs on the dancers’ skirts, the body decorations on the clowns, and the raised banner over the leaders.
Mootza was one of several artists who incorporated traditional Native painting styles from hides, pottery, and murals with the European-derived medium of watercolor to create a new Native American art form.
- Maker/Artist
- Mootzka, Waldo
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Opaque watercolor over graphite on textured wove paper
- Locations
- Place made: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
- Dimensions
- 13 x 20 1/16 in. (33 x 51 cm)
- Departments
- Arts of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 40.91
- Credit Line
- Dick S. Ramsay Fund
- Exhibitions
- Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement, American Art
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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