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Biography: Tonita Vigil Peña (1893-1949) Quah Ah
Category: Artists | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 12:44pm
Tonita Peña, whose Indian name was Quah Ah, was born in 1893 in the - Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery an...
Read More Subject: Original Painting of a Pueblo Corn Dancer, circa 1921
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 12:39pm
This original painting by Tonita Peña (Quah Ah) of San Ildefonso Pueblo was probably painted in 1921, this being based on the dual signature of her...
Read More Biography: Crucita Gonzales Calabaza (1921-1999) Blue Corn
Category: Artists | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 12:27pm
Crucita Gonzales Calabaza (1921-1999) Blue Corn, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and fine art.
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Polychrome Jar by Crucita Gonzales Calabaza (Blue Corn)
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 12:19pm
Blue Corn is responsible for reviving Polychrome pottery at San Ildefonso Pueblo. After Maria and Julian Martinez made the Black-on-black famous, t...
Read More Subject: Bronze Sculpture Entitled "Hopi Conflict"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 11:46am
Each year Hopi women take part in a ceremony called the Basket Dance during which possessions of increasing value are discarded and fought over by ...
Read More Biography: Grace Chapella - White Squash Blossom (1874-1980)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 4:33pm
Grace Chapella was born in February 1874, at the Tewa village of Hano, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery a...
Read More Subject: Pair of Salt and Pepper Containers
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 4:31pm
This set consists of a sterling silver salt cellar and serving spoon and a pepper shaker, all in the style of Navajo, or quite possibly Hopi silver...
Read More Subject: Selection of Sterling Silver Buttons and Beads
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 4:06pm
This group is a mixture of shirt buttons, moccasin buttons and silver beads and cones. They are all sterling silver and, except for the shirt butto...
Read More Subject: Pop Chalee Painting of Three Leaping Deer
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 3:37pm
Pop Chalee was well known for her murals and was commissioned to do work for Marshall Fields in Chicago, Santa Fe Railroad Ticket Office in Santa F...
Read More Subject: Cochiti Pueblo Silver and Turquoise Concha Belt
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 3:22pm
Joe Herrera Quintana was a very private person and, as a result, very little is known about his personal life, but he spent his adult life making j...
Read More Subject: Popsicle Alabaster Sculpture of a Bear
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 1:40pm
This very stylized sculpture of a bear was carved from Popsicle Alabaster that has a beautiful warm coral color and a fine polish. According to th...
Read More Subject: Tennessee Limestone Sculpture of an American Bison
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 1:32pm
Bob Haozous is a Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache Indian and the son of famous sculptor Allan Houser. Haozous has major art sculptures in two dozen c...
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