Craig does not love horses, but he loves me and accepts that horses are a part of who I am. But, since this is OUR home and not just my home, I try to use some restraint and not hang horsey prints all over the house. I do have some, and what I have, I love.
In 1970 when my parents bought our horse property on the Wabash River, two prints of horses were found left behind in a closet. Clearly of good quality but unframed and with a little bit of water damage from somewhere, my mother gave them to me. I put them in a box with my model horses and would pull them out occasionally, decide that they were still worth keeping, and tuck them away again.
Two years ago I discovered them yet again while sorting the hobby closet and decided it was time to finally do something with them.
I haven't any idea, and both my parents are gone so I cannot ask them. Each print does have a marking on it.
(I asked the framers to please put a copy of that tag on the back of the framed prints.)
That tag and the signature proved to be the key to unlocking what the prints were.
I learned that the bottom silkscreen print was by an Apache named Nossman Vigil who lived 1926-1994. The original hangs in the National Museum of the American Indian and information about it can be found here. The other is also by Vigil, but I did not find where the original hangs. And, as I compare signatures on the various images online to the ones on my two, it appears that the artist hand signed the silkscreened prints that were done by Tewa Enterprises!
Apparently, I have had some nice, signed art tucked away all those years!
More art in the next post tomorrow!
