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San Ildefonso Pueblo Painting of Goat Herder with Goats by Alfonso Roybal - C3874J
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Thu, Feb 23rd 2017, 4:56pm
Most pueblo artist's paintings, especially the early students of The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School, dwell on ceremonial items or individual dancers. That is what Esther Hoyt, the San Ildefonso Day School teacher from 1900 to 1907 encouraged them to do. It is also what Dorothy Dunn, the teacher at The Studio, encouraged of her students in the 1930s.
Awa Tsireh has provided a refreshing image of a daily ritual-a young man herding his goats along. In typical fashion of The Studio style of presentation, there is no ground plane, no plants, and nothing in the sky. All we see are goats and the herder.