BERTHA HARVEY

American Flag

Circa 1960s

Dimensions: 34.5” x 57.5”

Medium: Weaving

Condition: Overall very good

Provenance: 

– Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM

– Trotta-Bono Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

SOLD

Bertha Harvey’s American flag holds its proportions with discipline. Stars remain measured, stripes deliberate. Yet this is unequivocally a Navajo textile – woven wool, tension held in structure, geometry carried through generational knowledge. The flag is neither altered nor caricatured. It is translated. In fiber, the national symbol becomes physical and enduring rather than rhetorical. The complexities of who created this artwork brings conversation around Nationhood to the forefront. The exhibition is open-ended for discourse.