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Subject: Original Oil Painting of a Cowboy by Elsie W. Sork
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Sun, Mar 3rd 2013, 1:45pm
Occasionally, a painting of outstanding quality arrives at the gallery and we are unable to locate any biographical information on the artist. That...
Read More Title: Navajo (Diné) Wood Folk Art Carving “Talking God”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sun, Mar 3rd 2013, 12:57pm
Talking God is one of the Navajo Yeibichai, a main deity. He is unusual in that he is the one Navajo deity who is compassionate and an advocate fo...
Read More Biography: Helen Cordero (1915 – 1994)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Mar 1st 2013, 3:40pm
Everyone should know that Helen Cordero made the very first storyteller, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery...
Read More Title: Cochiti Pueblo Male Storyteller with a Child and Dog
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 1st 2013, 3:33pm
What is known today as a Storyteller figurine had its beginning in 1964 from the hands of Cochiti Pueblo potter Helen Cordero. Alexander Girard, t...
Read More Title: Original Painting "Buffalo Hunt" by Quincy Tahoma
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Thu, Feb 28th 2013, 4:10pm
When this painting was completed in 1948, Quincy Tahoma was very active. His friends who had joined the military for World War II had returned hom...
Read More Biography: Tony Da 1940-2008
Category: Artists | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 4:36pm
Tony (Anthony Edward) Da descended talented family of potters, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and fine art
Read More Subject: Pojoaque Pueblo Matte-finish Polychrome Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 3:24pm
Mary Gutierrez is a member of the Talachy family of Pojoaque Pueblo but I have been unable to find any significant information regarding her. One w...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Polychrome Seed Jar by Minnie Vigil
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 3:10pm
Minnie Vigil is one of a family of talented potters. She and her sisters, Lois Gutierrez de la Cruz, Thelma Talache, and Goldenrod Garcia, are pott...
Read More Subject: Matte Painted Polychrome Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 2:59pm
The combination of multiple colors and matte finish achieved by Lois and Derek de la Cruz results in a soft palette and pleasing visual sensation. ...
Read More Subject: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Wood Carving "Female Skinwalker"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 2:41pm
This sculpture is of a Female Skinwalker, which, in Navajo legend, would be much rarer than male Skinwalkers. There are several varieties of Navajo...
Read More Biography: Carl Von Hassler (1887-1969)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 11:25am
Von Hassler had a light hand sometimes and a heavier hand at other, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and ...
Read More Subject: Original Oil Painting of New Mexico Landscape by Carl Von Hassler
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 11:13am
Von Hassler had a light hand sometimes and a heavier hand at other times when applying oil paints to canvas. Many of his works show delicacy and ot...
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