c.1900s Navajo Hubbell Ganado Rug with Whirling Logs, 60" x 38.5"

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c. 1900s Navajo Hubbell Ganado Rug with Whirling Logs, 60" x 38.5"
This textile is in very good condition; there is some minor color run, spotting, and a very minor hole. The warp count is 7 and the weft count is 20, per inch. Acquired from a private collection in Canada. The owner inherited this weaving from her great aunt, who was a noted Alberta artist. Some of her work resides in the Glenbow Gallery in Calgary, the National Gallery of Canada, and former Prime Ministers. The aunt had travelled extensively throughout the southwestern United States to paint, attend art shows, or visit family members. This weaving was passed down through the family. Includes a letter of provenance and a biography on the artist.
Please reference item T4769.
Ganado, Arizona was the home and base of operations for Juan Lorenzo Hubbell – who, by most accounts, was the leading trader of the early Rug Period and owned several trading posts around the Reservation, as well as a large warehouse in the railroad town of Winslow, Arizona. Ganado is about 50 miles south of Canyon de Chelly. Hubbell’s tastes ran to Classic Navajo Period weavings and many of the early rugs made by Ganado area weavers were close enough in appearance to classic mantas and serapes to have earned the generic name, Hubbell Revival rugs. Hubbell guided his weavers by displaying paintings of rug patterns he favored. Many of these paintings can still be seen at the original trading post, now preserved and operated as a National Historic Site. Hubbell preferred a color scheme of red, white, and black, with natural greys, often substituting black for elements that would have been indigo blue in Classic Period weavings. By the 1930s, Ganado area weavers had thoroughly adopted the color scheme, but had moved away from Classic-inspired weavings to new patterns with a large central motif often a complicated diamond or lozenge shape with a double or triple geometric border. These rugs frequently had a deep red ground or field on which the central motif was superimposed, and are now known as the Ganado regional style.
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