Fall Corn Dance
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Object Label
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.
Caption
Waldo Mootzka Hopi Pueblo, ca. 1903–1940; Hopi Pueblo. Fall Corn Dance, 1938. Opaque watercolor over graphite on textured wove paper, 13 x 20 1/16 in. (33 x 51 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 40.91. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum Photograph, 40.91_PS11.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Maker
Culture
Title
Fall Corn Dance
Date
1938
Geography
Place made: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Medium
Opaque watercolor over graphite on textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
13 x 20 1/16 in. (33 x 51 cm)
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
40.91
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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