Gorman visits Taos and meets Henry Manchester and Dorothy Brett. A show is arranged for the next year. 1964 - R.C. and his father Carl N. Gorman are invited to do a two-person show, "New Directions in American Indian Art", at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, OK. 1965 - R.C. and Carl exhibit together at the Heard Museum's Gallery of Indian Art in Phoenix, Arizona. John Becklaw, writes a review in the Arizona Republic under the headline: "Gormans-Father and Son Rebels in Indian Art" 1965 - R.C. hold his first exhibition at the Manchester in Taos, New Mexico. The show sells out. 1966 - R.C. makes his first ever lithographs with Jose Sanchez in Mexico City. 1966 - R.C. helps organize American Indian Arts Group in San Francisco and serves as chairman of its painting committee. 1968 - R.C. borrows money from his parents to purchase the Manchester Gallery. He renames it the Navajo Gallery. It is the first Native American owned fine art gallery. He opens with 55 artists showing. 1971 - R.C. resumes his lithography and makes his first Lithographs with the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will go on to produce at least 52 lithographs between 1971 and 1975 with Tamarind. 1973 - R.C. attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian in New York City. He is the only living artist to be included in the show and his artwork is used for the front and back cover of the show's catalog. In their review of the show, the New York Times refers to R.C. Gorman as "the Picasso of American-Indian art" (an honor as Picasso had died at 91 in France in April of that same year). 1974 - R.C. Gorman's paintings are among the arts added to the Museum of the American Indian on Broadway in New York City. In an article, the New York Times says, "no one stands higher among living American Indian painters." Gorman moved from California to New Mexico, opening the Navajo Gallery in Taos in 1968. It was the first Native American-owned art gallery. In 1973, he was the only living artist whose work was shown in the "Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian" exhibition held at Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Two of his pieces was selected for the cover of the exhibit's catalog. Gorman's work