Original Painting of Pueblo Male Dancer by Alfonso Roybal - Awa Tsireh [R]

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Alfonso Roybal, Awa Tsireh, San Ildefonso Pueblo Painter

Original Painting of Pueblo Male Dancer by Alfonso Roybal - Awa Tsireh

When Edgar Lee Hewett, at the School of American Research, was supporting the early Pueblo artists, their work was considered an "ethnographic revival" in nature and that is the manner in which they were encouraged to paint. After the School ceased its direct support of them, there was an immediate and sharp curtailment of ethnographic imagery and an increase in freedom to paint as they wished.

 

Awa Tsireh had been painting since before 1917. He was the oldest of the early group of pueblo painters. His formal education had not extended beyond primary grades. He was versatile in his styles of painting in that he was equally comfortable with representational or semi-realistic, representational plus conventional, and abstract.

 

This painting is an excellent example of the detail provided by Awa Tsireh in his early years of painting. It is an ethnographic masterpiece. Every detail of the dancer's clothing is accurate. The signature is another testament to the early time that the painting was executed. It is the most primitive signature of the artist. It is likely that this painting was completed in the 1920s.

 

Condition: The painting appears to be in original excellent condition but it has not been examined out of the frame.

Provenance: ex. coll. Arizona fine art collector

Recommended Reading: Southwest Indian Painting by Clara Lee Tanner

 

 

Alfonso Roybal, Awa Tsireh, San Ildefonso Pueblo Painter
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