About the works

A pair of original watercolors by Frank P. Sauerwein (1871-1910) dated 1902. Created the same year Sauerwein painted the illustrations for U. S. Hollister’s book “The Navajo and His Blanket,” although never published. Each carries a label on reverse from Mark Sublette’s Medicine Man Gallery, Inc., Tucson. Both works very good condition.

The female subject sitting on the blanket appears to be wearing a Navajo concha belt, likely second phase. This work in particular was likely created for possible inclusion in Hollister’s book. The colors are vivid and show no signs of fading. The other painting depicts a fine example of an Acoma Pueblo olla with parrot and rainbow design in the foreground. The background appears to be Laguna. Sauerwein’s initials F. P. S. and date 02 are among the pebbles in front of the leftmost two pots. The condition is very fine with no apparent fading to colors.

About the artist…

During his relatively short life of thirty-nine years, Frank Paul Sauerwein became a specialist of western scene painting, including Southwest Indians in their landscape. Had he not died in 1910, he may have become the seventh founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

Sauerwein grew to love Arizona, staying at El Tovar Hotel at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, and in 1900 on the Navajo Reservation. He was a close friend of Lorenzo Hubbell, well-known trading post operator at Ganado, Arizona. Sauerwein also spent a considerable amount of time at Keams Canyon in northeast Arizona, where he sketched Navajo and Hopi Indians.

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