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Santa Clara Pueblo Aquatint Etching “Acoma Rooster” by Helen Hardin - 25919
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, Dec 9th 2016, 2:48pm
The etching was begun on June 1, 1981 and completed on July 15, 1981. The master printer was Ricardo C. Ximinez at El Cerro Graphics in Los Lunas, New Mexico. The shop mark is on lower left, the printer's mark is on lower right and the artist name, Helen Hardin (1943-1984) Tsa-Sah-Wee-Eh - Little Standing Spruce, is signed in lower right with her hallmark tree image. There were 65 Arabic numbered in the edition and 8 in the Roman numbered edition. This is number III of VIII in the Roman edition, which are the 8 copies allocated to the print shop for its records and distribution. Helen Hardin was from Santa Clara Pueblo.