Artist: Joseph Jacinto "Jo" Mora

Title: 8 Hopi Kachina Ceremonial Figures

Medium: Watercolor on Paper (Each Piece Signed and Numbered)

Limited Edition: 219/650

Art Dimensions: 19 H x 15 W inches

Framed Dimensions: 20 H x 16 W inchesItem Description: From 1979Each signed in the print, J J MoraNumbered in pencil, 219/650Includes three copies of the original outer portfolioDimensions: 14 ¼ x 18 ½ inches each.

Item Description: The EIGHT images of Mora's paintings that were reproduced in offset form are:

1. SHO-YANG-EP KATCHINA (Soyangephoya)
2. HEU-MISH KATCHINA (Hemis) - FRAMED
3. TEU-MAHS KATCHINA (Tumas or Crow Mother) - FRAMED
4. MU-SHAISH KATCHINA [Buffalo] (Mosairu)
5. POO-WHA-MUICH KATCHINA (Powamu)
6. SEE-PEEK-NICH (Sipikne) - FRAMED
7. HEU-MISH KATCHINA-MANA (Hemis Kachinmana)
8. SHE-EU-HEU-MISH KATCHINA (Sio Hemis) - FRAMED

Oklahoman John R. Wilson was visiting Albuquerque in the mid-1970s when he discovered a cache of 40 original paintings by artist and photographer J. J. Mora in Fisher Galleries. Mrs. Fisher had them stored away for years, maybe decades, and Wilson, realizing their rarity, purchased.

Wilson brought them to the attention of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) which put together a three-year traveling exhibit based on the works of J.J. Mora. Wilson, after the exhibit, put together a group of investors and they planned to publish all the original Mora paintings over a period of several years. Eight of the paintings were published but the others never were for financial reasons.

The eight paintings that were published were ones painted by Mora in the early 1900s. Mora, from Boston, had heard of the Hopi Snake Dance and was determined to go to the Hopi Reservation to see it in person. He and a friend did just that in 1904. What was to be a three-week trip lasted three years with Mora taking a house on the reservation and painting and photographing.


ARTIST BIO:

Few artistic legacies are more interesting than that of Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876−1947). Mora’s artistic gifts range over a wide variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, illustration, cartooning, sculpture, photography, map-making, and writing, their diversity being an amazing accomplishment for one person. Mora was born in Uruguay on October 22, 1876, moved to the eastern United States when he was a young child, and then, after attending art school and working as an illustrator and cartoonist in the Boston area, spent the rest of his adult life living and working in the western United States, with the last 27 years in Carmel and Pebble Beach, California.

In 1920, Mora moved to Carmel from the San Francisco Bay Area to work on what was to become his masterpiece – the Father Serra Cenotaph, in the Jo Mora Memorial Chapel at the Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo. Carmel Mission priest Ramon Mestres commissioned Mora to create the bronze and travertine memorial, along with the cross and altar, that were dedicated on October 12, 1924.

Mora is probably best known publicly for the series of maps - or cartes, as he referred to them – that he created. These historically accurate, humorous, and collectable prints have entertained viewers for years. His homage to Carmel, the Carmel-By-The-Sea carte, was printed in 1942 and highlights much of the colorful history of the town.

Source: https://jomoracollection.org/about/

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