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THBDorothy Eugenie Brett (1883 – 1976) – The Sundown Dance (1967-68)
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Dorothy Eugenie Brett (1883 – 1976)
The Sundown Dance (1967-68)
oil on board
32 × 48 inches
signed and dated lower right
An original letter from Manchester Gallery to Tom Seymour and a copy of The Brett: Fifty Years of Painting in New Mexico, 1924 – 1974 exhibition catalog will accompany the lot.
American Southwest historian Frank Waters wrote, “There is something strange, ineffable, and compelling about Brett’s Indian paintings.… Brett is the only painter I have known who has blindly, intuitively caught the valid, mystical component of the Pueblo character.… The hey day of Pueblo dancing, as well as it can be framed, will be remembered in Brett’s paintings.”
PROVENANCE
Manchester Gallery, El Prado, New Mexico
Tom Seymour, Fort Worth, Texas, 1974
Present owners, by descent
EXHIBITED
The Brett: Fifty Years of Painting in New Mexico, 1924 – 1974, Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1974
LITERATURE
The Brett: Fifty Years of Painting in New Mexico, 1924 – 1974, Jamison Galleries and Manchester Galleries, 1974, p. 2, illustrated
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Surface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.
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