Southwest Oil Paintings - Sold & New Works
Southwest Traditional Oil Paintings by Nick Justinian "Above the Anasazi Antlers " H20" X W24" Oil. Provenance: New. Announcing a new work by the artist Nick Justinian, featuring details of early Southwest domestic life in an ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) cliff-dwelling scene. These portray the presence of Native handmade items, such as pottery & basketry drying in the sun, woven textiles hanging under a beam, and domestic traces like the old clay/brick oven for baking, and the chimney-smoke rising above the dwelling on the left, each representing their role in domestic life. Also shown is the title namesake, or ‘Antlers’, which are still displayed above dwellings even today on Native reservations. Primarily to showcase hunting pride and to commemorate successful hunts, antlers historically represented masculine energy, strength, and the ability to conquer. But here, they point upward instead. The Anasazi doorway is framed by hundreds of colors for the mason’s ...