Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Ancestral Spirits
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Ancestral Spirits
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Image View:
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Detail, upper left corner, figures coming down from kiva
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Creator:
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John Sloan (American painter, 1871-1951)
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Location:
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repository: New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States) 45.23P
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Location Note:
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107 West Palace Avenue; Gift of Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, 1920
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GPS:
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+35.6881-105.9392
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Date:
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1919 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American; Native American
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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24 in (height, without frame) x 20 in (width, without frame)
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Subjects:
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human figure; landscape; Native North Americans; Pueblo culture
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Description:
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John Sloan's Ancestral Spirits captures his responses to the activity of a Pueblo dance. In this painting, ritual clowns seem to spill down the stairway leading from the rooftop entrance of a kiva, a Pueblo ceremonial chamber. Sloan blends these figures into a single mass of abstracted motion. Evocative, highly personal, and emotive responses to the New Mexico's cultural landscape quickly dominated the paintings by the Santa Fe modernists during the post-World War I period. (Source: New Mexico Museum of Art [website]; http://www.nmartmuseum.org/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Eleven
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Identifier:
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7A1-SLOAN-AS-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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