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Chest Design from Old Spanish Southwest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Subjects
Art ExhibitionsNative American Life
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Chest Design from Old Spanish Southwest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., New Mexico, NM, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of Chest Design from Old Spanish Southwest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., New Mexico, NM, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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A flat-color folk-art illustration on a red ground: a rider in red jacket and yellow trousers on a black horse at left, a woman in a blue ruffled dress in the center, and a woman in a tan striped skirt at right, framed by stylized floral and wave borders.

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PublisherNational Gallery of Art
POST CARD NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART WASHINGTON, D. C. CHEST DESIGN FROM OLD SPANISH SOUTHWEST MADE IN NEW MEXICO ABOUT 1820 Index of American Design
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ConditionVery good
Place mentionedNew Mexico, NM
PublisherWashington, DC
NotesWhite border around the image; flat matte colors in a Pennsylvania-Dutch-style decorative folk-art design; slight corner wear. No postmark. Divided-back National Gallery of Art / Index of American Design card, unused (no stamp, no address, no message); pencil "#59" at lower right; minor corner wear and pin holes at top corners.

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Chest Design from Old Spanish Southwest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/chest-design-from-old-spanish-southwest-national-gallery-of. Accessed October 5, 2026.