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Family Praying

(Native American (Cochiti), 1920 – 2006)
1937–1940
Object PlaceCochiti Pueblo, New Mexico
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 22.9 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Bertram J. Malenka
Accession number2019.681
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsVerso, stamped: The Studio, U.S. Indian School, Santa Fe, New Mexico
ProvenanceMaitland Lee Griggs, Jr. (b. 1928 – d. 1992), Ardsley-on-Hudson, NY, and Newcastle, ME. October 18, 1975, sold, possibly at an estate sale, Robert L. Foster Auctioneer and Appraiser, Newcastle, ME, to Bertram J. Malenka (b. 1923 – d. 2018) and Ruth S. Malenka (b. 1926 – d. 2015), Belmont, MA; 2019, gift of the estate of Bertram J. Malenka to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)
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