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The personal estate of the late Navajo artist and Taos resident R.C. Gorman will be auctioned August 20-21, 2008 just before Indian Market weekend in Santa Fe. View Auction Lists.
The event begins with silent auction bidding and preview Wednesday, August 20, from 5-9 p.m. at the Taos Civic Plaza Convention Center, 120 Civic Plaza Drive in Taos.
On Thursday, August 21, the silent auction and preview continue at 10 a.m. The live auction commences at 1:30 p.m.
Among works being offered are exquisite examples of Southwestern pottery, retablos, carvings, jewelry, and fine furnishings from Gorman’s home, along with artwork by some of the most well known artists who have lived and worked in Taos. These include Ted Egri, Ron Barsano, Robert Shorty, Miguel Martínez, Michio Takayama, Armand Lara, David Paul Bradley, and renowned Native American artist Fritz Scholder. Also available are works by the artist’s father Carl Nelson Gorman, who, during World War II, was a Navajo Code Talker.
Registration fee will be $25.00, which will be credited to the first purchase. Each registrant may bring one guest, but only registrants can bid. Open to persons age 21 and older.
 

Virginia Susan Dooley of Taos, NM, died on Friday, April 25th, after a prolonged illness.

Virginia was born on March 7, 1943 in New York City, the daughter of Raymond N. Dooley and Lovilla Frederick Dooley. he studied piano and voice at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and received her bachelor's degree from Mundelein College in Chicago. Upon graduation, Virginia moved to St. Michaels, AZ where she taught music at the St. Michael's Mission School and where she developed a deep regard and respect for Navajo traditions and culture. She then accepted a job teaching music in the Taos school system. It was in Taos that she met R.C. Gorman, then a promising but unknown artist. She posed for some of Gorman's early drawings and paintings and became both a close friend and early promoter of his work.

For nearly forty years, they worked together, he producing and she promoting, the iconic images of Navajo women drawn with the pure, spare lines that eventually earned him a world-wide reputation.

Virginia is survived by her two brothers, William Paul Dooley of Kent, CT, and Raymond W. Dooley of Belgrade, Serbia, as well as numerous cousins, most of whom came to love Taos while attending family reunions she organized at her home.

Navajo Gallery introduces six new lithograph releases. These lithographs were hand drawn by Mr. Gorman prior to his death. Houston
Fine Arts Press received permission from the Estate of R.C.Gorman to print and release these lithographs.

Mr. Gorman's signature is embossed in 22 carat gold, each lithograph is a limited edition of 100.

The lithograph,"Remembering", was created in 2006. There are five other new release lithographs now available, see Estate Releases.

Two or three more lithographs may be released in the future, and that will complete Mr. Gorman's work with lithographs.