Comments:
Very good condition. Good margins. Printed on cream wove paper. Four persons standing in front of a typical rectangular Hopi kiva with ascending ladder. The people face to the left as if watching an activity. Little information exists on this artist. We have had several versions of this print either signed H. Fortier or just Fortier but have been unable to identify the artist. Another example of the print is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and has the accession number (1967.54.60) indicating that it was in the collection as of 1967. The piece on file at the Smithsonian was donated by a "Mrs. Nigel Cholmeley-Jones" whose later full name was Henrietta Howard Boit Sturgis Cholmeley-Jones (1896-1985). According to information online at the Syracuse University libraries website "For five years Cholmeley-Jones was a supervisor of the WPA Westport Art Project. " It's highly likely that this print derives from that WPA connection. Adding to the confusion, if H. Fortier was a woman artist and married, changing her last name, we may never know who this artist was.
Very good condition. Good margins. Printed on cream wove paper. Four persons standing in front of a typical rectangular Hopi kiva with ascending ladder. The people face to the left as if watching an activity. Little information exists on this artist. We have had several versions of this print either signed H. Fortier or just Fortier but have been unable to identify the artist. Another example of the print is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and has the accession number (1967.54.60) indicating that it was in the collection as of 1967. The piece on file at the Smithsonian was donated by a "Mrs. Nigel Cholmeley-Jones" whose later full name was Henrietta Howard Boit Sturgis Cholmeley-Jones (1896-1985). According to information online at the Syracuse University libraries website "For five years Cholmeley-Jones was a supervisor of the WPA Westport Art Project. " It's highly likely that this print derives from that WPA connection. Adding to the confusion, if H. Fortier was a woman artist and married, changing her last name, we may never know who this artist was.
