Original Painting "Female Buffalo Dancer" [SOLD]

An original casein painting by Justino Herrera of Cochiti Pueblo. The image is of a female Buffalo Dancer. Herrera signed his paintings with his pueblo name Stimone. A label on the back of the original framing states Buffalo Dance, 2nd Prize Santa Fe Fiesta, September 5, 1942. Double matted with acid-free matboard and framed.

Stimone, from Cochiti Pueblo, was born in 1920 and serve in the United States Army during World War II.

In the 1940s, the artist wrote:

“I figured a plan to do while I was in the Army when I come home. I ‘d marry my sweetheart and have our own home on my farm, raise stock and I could keep painting too. Well, it happened. We got married and we had a little girl. Couple months later my wife took sick...”

His wife passed away, leaving him to raise his daughter, and little time to paint.