Original Painting “Untitled—Deer Dance” [SOLD]

Charles Vicenti attended school in Albuquerque in the late 1950s, but I have not determined whether he attended the Albuquerque Indian School or the University of New Mexico at that time. The only reference found for him is a listing in Snodgrass (1968) which indicated he painted a mural at the Barelas Community Center in Albuquerque, and that he is represented in the collection of the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation), now part of The Smithsonian Institution.

This watercolor presents two Deer Katsinas as participants of a Zuni Deer Dance. From the style of painting, it is probably a piece painted while he was a student. Since there is so little published information on the artist, it is presumed he did not continue painting as an adult.