Tonita Vigil (Quah Ah) Pena ART FOR SALE

1895 San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico - 1949 San Ildelfonso Pueblo, New Mexico. Known for: Native American, genre, animal and figure painting.

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Born in San Ildefonso Pueblo, Tonita Pena showed early art talent by the age of seven in the San Ildefonso Day School. She became the first Pueblo Indian easel painter, and doing genre painting of local village life, she broke away from the stereotype of only men doing narrative painting. At that time, women's artwork was mostly geometric patterns, but her village scenes were lively and animated, and her figures were modeled forms. She is credited with liberating Indian women to paint whatever they wanted. In her art, she was encouraged by her family, her teachers, her three husbands, and New Mexico archaeologist and Museum Director Edgar Hewitt and painter Kenneth Chapman. Hewitt gave her art supplies and purchased her paintings, and art... Read full biography

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Original Painting of a Four-Figure Corn Dance by Tonita Peña - Image 1 of 4

Original Painting of a Four-Figure Corn Dance by Tonita Peña - Image 2 of 4

Original Painting of a Four-Figure Corn Dance by Tonita Peña

Type:Painting

Year:circa 1930

Size:10.25" x 11.75"

Medium:Watercolor

Signed:Signed

Edition:17” Height x 19-¼” Width (frame)

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Item # C4803Q. Tonita Vigil Peña (Quah Ah) captured a four-figure Pueblo Corn Dance in traditional style (no foreground/background) using varied opaque watercolor with delicate precision. https://www.adobegallery.com/art/original-painting-four-figure-pueblo-corn-dance-tonita-pena

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