The following was submitted by Carole Le Beau:. Gilbert Atencio:. San Ildefonso Pueblo. Indian Name: Wah Peen or Wo Peen (Mountain of Sacred Wind). Born: Greeley, Co. 1930; Died 1995. Residence:... Read full biography
The following was submitted by Carole Le Beau:. Gilbert Atencio:. San Ildefonso Pueblo. Indian Name: Wah Peen or Wo Peen (Mountain of Sacred Wind). Born: Greeley, Co. 1930; Died 1995. Residence: Santa Fe and San Ildefonso Pueblo. Son of Isabel Montoya and nephew of Maria Martinez. Profession:... Read full biography
The following was submitted by Carole Le Beau:. Gilbert Atencio:. San Ildefonso Pueblo. Indian Name: Wah Peen or Wo Peen (Mountain of Sacred Wind). Born: Greeley, Co. 1930; Died 1995. Residence: Santa Fe and San Ildefonso Pueblo. Son of Isabel Montoya and nephew of Maria Martinez. Profession: Illustrator, painter, and occasional potter. Atencio worked at Los Alamos Labs most of his adult life as a medical and technical illustrator, therefore he was not a prolific painter. He was a self-taught... Read full biography
The following was submitted by Carole Le Beau:. Gilbert Atencio:. San Ildefonso Pueblo. Indian Name: Wah Peen or Wo Peen (Mountain of Sacred Wind). Born: Greeley, Co. 1930; Died 1995. Residence: Santa Fe and San Ildefonso Pueblo. Son of Isabel Montoya and nephew of Maria Martinez. Profession: Illustrator, painter, and occasional potter. Atencio worked at Los Alamos Labs most of his adult life as a medical and technical illustrator, therefore he was not a prolific painter. He was a self-taught artist. Military: U.S. Marine Corps. Medium: Watercolor & Pottery. "Atencio's strong sense of family and tribal responsibility has resulted in his seldom venturing from his native pueblo. He experimented with adaptations of his flat style painting."... Read full biography
The following was submitted by Carole Le Beau:. Gilbert Atencio:. San Ildefonso Pueblo. Indian Name: Wah Peen or Wo Peen (Mountain of Sacred Wind). Born: Greeley, Co. 1930; Died 1995. Residence: Santa Fe and San Ildefonso Pueblo. Son of Isabel Montoya and nephew of Maria Martinez. Profession: Illustrator, painter, and occasional potter. Atencio worked at Los Alamos Labs most of his adult life as a medical and technical illustrator, therefore he was not a prolific painter. He was a self-taught artist. Military: U.S. Marine Corps. Medium: Watercolor & Pottery. "Atencio's strong sense of family and tribal responsibility has resulted in his seldom venturing from his native pueblo. He experimented with adaptations of his flat style painting." (Snodgrass). The artist believes in the traditional Indian ways and his favorite subj... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (23)
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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
Pueblo Indian Pottery
2000
Schaaf, Gregory
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Pueblo Indian Painting Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico 1900-1930
1997
Brody, J J
225 pages (color)
Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philboork Museum of Art
1996
Wyckoff, Lydia (Ed)
304 pages (color)
The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters
1995
Lester, Patrick D.
701 pages
Native American Artists
1995
Reno, Dawn E.
230 pages
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
Shared Visions Native American Painters & Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Archuleta, M/R R Strickland
110 pages (color)
When the Rainbow Touches Down
1988
Seymour, Tryntje Van Ness
377 pages (color)
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Native American Painting Selections/Museum of American Indian
1982
Fawcett, David/C A Callander
95 pages (color)
Magic Images Contemporary Native American Art
1981
Wade, Edwin L/R Strickland
128 pages
Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art
1980
Tanner, Clara Lee
477 pages (color)
Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society
1977
Grigsby, Eugene Jr.
147 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 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
Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art (Exhibition catalog)