Allan J. McIntyre Fine Art - Louie Ewing WPA Prints

Allan J. McIntyre Fine Art

 

 

LOUIE EWING's

Navajo BLankets
PORTFOLIO

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No. 110

 


The notations beneath each of the Louie Ewing silkscreen images to the right are from the Kenneth Chapman commentary on the textiles that accompanies the portfolio. Dating, capitalization, and textile descriptions are as Chapman presented it. The numbers under the descriptions, for instance L.A. #10/407, indicates the 1942 accession numbers and institutional ownership of the textiles.

L.A. = Laboratory of  Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

I.A.F = Indian Art Fund, Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Mean image size: 22 x 16 inches (558 x 406 mm).

Sheet size: 26 x 20 inches (660 x 507 mm).


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Allan J. McIntyre Fine Art. All Rights Reserved.


 

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PLATE 1

Period: 1850 to 1875.

Typical design of the classic period, with fine handspun white and indigo blue, and raveled bayeta for the red.

L.A. #10/407

 

PLATE 2

Period: 1850 to 1875.

Design of the classic period, with fine handspun white and indigo blue, raveled material for light green, and both raveled bayeta and Saxony yarn for reds.

L.A. #10/424

 

PLATE 3

Period: About 1875

Zoned design of the classic period. Medium handspun white and blues, Saxony yarn for the yellow, and red raveled from bayeta and carded with white to produce pink.

L.A. #10/2538

PLATE 4

Period: About 1880

Stepped zigzag design of medium handspun wool for white, indigo blue, and part of red. Commercial wool yarns for green and the red at ends.

L.A. #10/454

PLATE 5

Period: About 1875

Fine handspun wool for white, blue, light red, and green. Raveled bayeta for red and gold.

L.A. #10/401

 

PLATE 6

Period: About 1875

Antique "Chief" type of fine handspun wool for the white, natural brown-black and indigo blue, with raveled bayeta for the red.

L.A. #10/478

 

PLATE 7

Period: About 1875

"Chief" type of medium handspun wool for white, native dyed black, indigo blue, and aniline red.

L.A. #10/437

 

PLATE 8

Period: About 1875 to 1885

Banded back-ground type with medium handspun wool for white, native dyed black, and indigo blue. Raveled material used for red, and four-ply manufactured yarn for green.

L.A. #10/430

 

PLATE 9

Period: About 1880 to 1890

Banded back-ground type of medium handspun wool in white, natural brown-black, indigo blue, native green, and faded aniline red.

L.A. #10/2185

 

PLATE 10

Period: About 1880

Serrate edged zigzag and diamond design of fine handspun wool for the white, indigo blue, native yellow and green, and aniline red.

L.A. #10/1940

 

PLATE 11

Period: About 1875 to 1885

Typical example of stepped zigzags running lengthwise. Medium handspun wool for white, indigo blue, red and dark green. The light gray-green is three-ply manufactured yarn.

L.A. #10/2177

 

PLATE 12

Period: About 1890

Zoned design of medium handspun wool for white, native dyed black, and aniline dyes for red and purple, the later much faded.

L.A. #10/429

 

PLATE 13

Period: About 1890

Stepped zigzag design of course handspun wool, with indigo blue, native yellow and green, and aniline reds.

I.A.F., #T.31

 

PLATE 14

Period: About 1900

Serrate edged zigzags and diamonds of medium handspun wool, in white, native dyed black, and aniline red.

I.A.F., #T.192

 

PLATE 15

Period: About 1880

Unusual design with zones of vari-colored zigzags, produced by the "wedge-weave" technique, in which the colored weft threads follow the direction of the zigzags. Course soft handspun wool throughout. In the zigzags are native brown-black, aniline reds and orange.

I.A.F., #T.6

 

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