From San Ildefonso Pueblo, Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh) was many things to his pueblo; he was a farmer, pottery painter, museum employee, painter and silversmith. He was born in 1898 and died in 1955.... Read full biography
From San Ildefonso Pueblo, Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh) was many things to his pueblo; he was a farmer, pottery painter, museum employee, painter and silversmith. He was born in 1898 and died in 1955. Awa Tsireh was painting before 1917. He was the oldest of the early group of pueblo painters. His... Read full biography
From San Ildefonso Pueblo, Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh) was many things to his pueblo; he was a farmer, pottery painter, museum employee, painter and silversmith. He was born in 1898 and died in 1955. Awa Tsireh was painting before 1917. He was the oldest of the early group of pueblo painters. His formal education had not extended beyond primary grades. He was versatile in his styles of painting. He was equally comfortable with representational or semi-realistic, representational plus... Read full biography
From San Ildefonso Pueblo, Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh) was many things to his pueblo; he was a farmer, pottery painter, museum employee, painter and silversmith. He was born in 1898 and died in 1955. Awa Tsireh was painting before 1917. He was the oldest of the early group of pueblo painters. His formal education had not extended beyond primary grades. He was versatile in his styles of painting. He was equally comfortable with representational or semi-realistic, representational plus conventional, and abstract. Awa Tsireh was early recognized beyond his native world as an outstanding Indian artist. His watercolors were sent by Alice Corbin Henderson to the Arts Club of Chicago for a special exhibit in 1920. His paintings appeared in early... Read full biography
From San Ildefonso Pueblo, Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh) was many things to his pueblo; he was a farmer, pottery painter, museum employee, painter and silversmith. He was born in 1898 and died in 1955. Awa Tsireh was painting before 1917. He was the oldest of the early group of pueblo painters. His formal education had not extended beyond primary grades. He was versatile in his styles of painting. He was equally comfortable with representational or semi-realistic, representational plus conventional, and abstract. Awa Tsireh was early recognized beyond his native world as an outstanding Indian artist. His watercolors were sent by Alice Corbin Henderson to the Arts Club of Chicago for a special exhibit in 1920. His paintings appeared in early exhibits in Santa Fe, and he was among the several artis... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (29)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories
1999
Rushing, W. Jackson
214 pages (color)
Pueblo Indian Painting Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico 1900-1930
1997
Brody, J J
225 pages (color)
The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters
1995
Lester, Patrick D.
701 pages
Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde
1995
Rushing, W Jackson
250 pages (color)
Shared Visions Native American Painters & Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Archuleta, M/R R Strickland
110 pages (color)
Philbrook Museum of Art Handbook to the Collections
1991
Philbrook Museum of Art
250 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
An American Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Richard York Gallery
88 pages (color)
When the Rainbow Touches Down
1988
Seymour, Tryntje Van Ness
377 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Native American Painting Selections/Museum of American Indian
1982
Fawcett, David/C A Callander
95 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Song from the Earth American Indian Painting
1976
Highwater, Jamake
212 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
Indian Painters and White Patrons
1971
Brody, J J
238 pages (color)
American Indian Painting of the Southwest and Plains Areas
1968
Dunn, Dorothy
429 pages (color)
American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory
1968
Snodgrass, Jeanne O.
269 pages
Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art
1957
Tanner, Clara Lee
157 pages (color)
Pictorial Folk Art New England to California
1949
Ford, Alice
172 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index