Gift,+The

Date: 1922
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1975/1975.86_1a.jpg?itok=terTy062 width="315" height="316" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/the-gift-2248"]] || Title: **The Gift**

Artist: **Ernest L. Blumenschein** Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1874 Died: Albuquerque, New Mexico 1960

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 40 3/8 x 40 1/4 in. (102.7 x 102.1 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design

Accession: 1975.86 || This painting raises many questions. Why is a Taos Indian, who wears a traditional white shawl, carrying a Plains Indian pipe bag and wearing beaded leggings and moccasins? What is a large Rio Grande Pueblo pot doing in a Taos scene? Have these people gathered for a special occasion? What is the gift—the pipe bag or the pot? Like many of the Taos School artists, Blumenschein often mixed artifacts of different tribes and cultures together, arranging objects to provide the most decorative picture.
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