To Pray For Rain height-4 (1944-2016) Joellyn Duesberry was a

(1944-2016) Joellyn Duesberry was a landscape painter who worked in oils

orange spiny oyster

Contemporary western

but to take them on with determination and alacrity

1962 - Suzanne Wiggin holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Boston University

To Pray For Rain height-4 (1944-2016) Joellyn Duesberry was aAcrylic, 36" x 36" In the arid lands of our Southwest pueblos, ceremonial concentration is on life giving rain. When successful, the answer results in corn, essential to physical and spiritual sustenance. A magnificent Kachina figure, carrier of prayers to be borne on feathers, dances on this very large old storage jar. The ancient painted two piece headdress and gourd rattle echo that messengers proper attire to begin the somber ceremony.