first phase berlant

The Berlant First Phase Chief’s Blanket, Ute Style, Navajo, circa 1830.

The chief's blanket measures 61 inches long by 77 inches wide, as woven.
Ex- Berlant Collection, Santa Monica, California.
Collected in 1969 by Tony Berlant in Oakland, California.
Illustrated as Plate 5 in Berlant & Kahlenberg, Walk In Beauty, 1977.

Exhibitions
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1972.
Navajo Tribal Museum, Window Rock, Arizona, 1972.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1972.
Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1972 and 1973.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, 1973.
Kunstverein Museum, Hamburg, Germany, 1973.
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 1974.
Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, Japan, 1984.
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, California, 1991.

Currently in a private collection.

Photograph by Joshua Baer - ©2014 navajoblanketappraisals.com
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first phase chiefs blanket

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