Original Painting —“These That I Call Gifts" [SOLD]

Santo Domingo Pueblo is known mostly for its fine hieshe jewelry and excellent pottery, but not many painters are known from there. Charles Lovato is probably the finest and most recognized painter from that pueblo. It is unfortunate that he had such a short life, but fortunate that he left behind some wonderful paintings.

Lovato’s paintings were often inspired by poetry and at other times poetry was inspired by his paintings. His work took on a somewhat abstract depiction of representational figures. In this painting, the animals and pottery are very representational but their relation to each other and to the plane on which they are displayed is rather abstract.

Most often Lovato wrote a short verse for his paintings. In this instance, he wrote the following on the back of the painting: "These That I Call Gifts--Some Have Taken For Granted. Were I to Distribute These Gifts--I'd Sever The Line That Gives. But I Am Not God--I Can Only Preserve Them So I Can Live And Also That He May Live."

This painting is signed C. F. Lovato and dated 1971 in lower right. It is matted and framed and in excellent original condition.