Original Painting of a Green Fish [SOLD]

Helen Hardin, from the very beginning of her career, was at the cutting edge of Indian-influenced art. Her art, though obviously drawing on her Indian heritage and tradition, was very much in the mainstream of modern aesthetics. This fine acrylic painting on artist board does not reflect a date. It is a simple drawing of a fish but a work exhibiting exceptional drafting skills and superlative technical rendering. It is quite exceptional and striking, as the work of Helen Hardin tends to be, with a true sense of the complexities and intricacies involved in the creation of such a work.

Over a sprayed background of mixed colors, Hardin fashioned a beautiful green fish with exquisite body designs of red triangles and polka dots.  The triangles are filled with red parallel lines and the polka dots are in red and blue and laid on the body in architectural precision in the Pueblo tradition.

This is a truly wonderful work of delightfully intimate scale. The painting is signed in lower middle in green paint, Tsa-sah-wee-eh with the artist's cartouche. The painting has recently been framed with a linen-covered mat and a new wood frame of gold color.

Condition: The painting has very slightly faded but of minor scale.

Recommended Reading: Changing Woman: The Life and Art of Helen Hardin by Jay Scott

Provenance: From a gentleman from Denver, Colorado