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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...
Read More Title: Pair Hopi-Tewa Polychrome Cylindrical Jars
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Feb 25th 2013, 1:47pm
The history of Hopi cylindrical jars is somewhat cloudy. They obviously had no functional use for the Hopi, so they must have been made solely to s...
Read More Title: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Wood Carving “Skinwalker”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Mon, Feb 25th 2013, 11:40am
Lawrence Jacquez (pronounced Hackus) was born in 1965 and lived in a hogan under the shadow of Dzil Ná'oodilii. There is an old cedar hogan weathe...
Read More Title: San Ildefonso Pueblo Original Painting of a Tewa Woman
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Mon, Feb 25th 2013, 10:54am
J. D. Roybal grew up under the artistic influence of his well-known uncle, Awa Tsireh. Early in his education, he studied at St. Catherine's School...
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