In this full-length portrait, Joseph Fleck monumentalizes the figure of a Pueblo woman: she is as tall as the clouds—the top of her hand cannot even be contained by the canvas—and she is pictured at an oblique angle that exaggerates her proportions. The overall effect is to evoke the perceived mythology of its Native subject—a significant focus of Western American art at the turn of the 20th century and in the following decades. Visual references to Taos Mountain and the ancient Taos Pueblo complex in the distance, as well as to the cultural and generational practice of gathering water (note the woman and child in the background) underscore the painting’s concepts of timelessness and natural harmony.