Antique Navajo American Rug 2452

Antique American Rugs -- Antique Navajo Rug, United States, early twentieth centuryThe field of this dazzling antique Navajo consists of what seems to be a free form checkerboard pattern in tan, dark chocolate, and ivory, with a single accenting red square at the center. A closer look reveals that the colors are arranged in repeating diamond array. The elements of the design, and especially the strategy of concealing pattern beneath apparent randomness, recall the geometric paintings of Mondrian, reminding us of modernist appeal that the best Navajo weavings have.