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.