Feast Day: San Juan Pueblo
ca. 1921
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55.9 × 76.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135119
William Penhallow “Whippy” Henderson created a rhythmic procession of shapes leading upward and outward from the crowd of villagers at the lower left to the slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The villagers, their houses, the trees and the hills are all part of a unified world summoned by the feast day drummer, whose music seems to radiate through the landscape. Henderson documented an impo…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice H. Rossin in memory of Dr. Joshua C. Taylor
Registry history
- ca. 1921 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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