Apache Gan Dancer
Signed & numbered Lithograph, edition of 500

A central part of the Apache People's ceremonial life involves the masked crowned Gan Dancers. These dancers make their appearance during each young woman's puberty rites and during ceremonies to cure the sick. The Gan usually dance in groups of four. According to tradition the Giver of Life originally sent the Gan as his emissaries to teach the people how to live a better way of life. The original Gan became discouraged with the people's backsliding ways and returned to their own realm. The Apache, realizing their great loss, began impersonating these mountain spirits in order to live closer to the way Giver of Life wished them to. The Gan here is depicted outside the sacred cave from which the spirits emerge. It is late night and the firelight reflects off of his body as he dips momentarily to one knee before springing up once more.

Unframed, image size: 12”x 24”: $95.00
Enhanced & Framed, Painted, Glazed & Varnished
~~with Santa Fe distressed, outside dimension 20.5” x 32.5”: 325.00
~~with Italian deluxe, outside dimension 20.75” x 32.75”: $325.00

My enhanced lithographs are selected from the above edition. Each is mounted, painted, varnished, glazed and hand textured by the artist to look, feel smell and taste like the original. It is then framed with a 3” single piece hand wrapped linen liner surrounded by either a distressed 2” moulding from Santa Fe or a 3” Italian moulding. Each is signed and numbered as enhanced on the back.