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WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (1866-1955)
Annie Healing
signed 'W.R. Leigh.' (lower left)—signed and inscribed 'Property of W.R. Leigh' (on the frame)
oil on canvasboard
1658 x 1318 in. (42.2 x 33.3 cm.)
Provenance
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mrs. Grant Wilkins, acquired from the above, 1976.
Sotheby's, New York, 27 May 1999, lot 61, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
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Lot Essay

According to Barbara Kramer, researcher and author of Nampeyo and Her Pottery, the work depicts Annie Healing (Heli), daughter of the renowned Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo. Like her mother, Annie was also a potter; the earliest piece directly attributed to her was a 1912 jar in Leigh's collection, currently in the Gilcrease Museum collection.

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