JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA WAS ONE OF THE STUDENTS OF DOROTHY DUNN AT THE STUDIO OF THE SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 1930'S. HE HAD, HOWEVER, STARTED PAINTING EARLIER, AS EARLY AS THE 1920'S AND... Read full biography
JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA WAS ONE OF THE STUDENTS OF DOROTHY DUNN AT THE STUDIO OF THE SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 1930'S. HE HAD, HOWEVER, STARTED PAINTING EARLIER, AS EARLY AS THE 1920'S AND CONTINUED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1979. HIS COMPLETE NAME WAS JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA AND HIS NATIVE NAME WAS... Read full biography
JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA WAS ONE OF THE STUDENTS OF DOROTHY DUNN AT THE STUDIO OF THE SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 1930'S. HE HAD, HOWEVER, STARTED PAINTING EARLIER, AS EARLY AS THE 1920'S AND CONTINUED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1979. HIS COMPLETE NAME WAS JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA AND HIS NATIVE NAME WAS SPELLED SOQUEEN, SOQWEEN, SO KWA A WEH, WHICH TRANSLATES TO FROST ON THE MOUNTAIN. THOSE WHO REMEMBER HIM IN HIS LATER YEARS RECALL THAT HE WAS CALLED ENKY (PRONOUNCED “INKY”). JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA... Read full biography
JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA WAS ONE OF THE STUDENTS OF DOROTHY DUNN AT THE STUDIO OF THE SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 1930'S. HE HAD, HOWEVER, STARTED PAINTING EARLIER, AS EARLY AS THE 1920'S AND CONTINUED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1979. HIS COMPLETE NAME WAS JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA AND HIS NATIVE NAME WAS SPELLED SOQUEEN, SOQWEEN, SO KWA A WEH, WHICH TRANSLATES TO FROST ON THE MOUNTAIN. THOSE WHO REMEMBER HIM IN HIS LATER YEARS RECALL THAT HE WAS CALLED ENKY (PRONOUNCED “INKY”). JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA (1902-1979) SOQWEEN - SO KWA A WEH (FROST ON THE MOUNTAIN) - ENKY WAS PAINTING AT SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO AT THE SAME TIME AS TONITA PEÑA, RICAHARD MARTÍNEZ, LUÍS GONZALES, ABEL SÁNCHEZ, AND ROMANDO VIGIL. HE WAS NOT VERY PRODUCTIVE IN THE EARLY YEARS... Read full biography
JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA WAS ONE OF THE STUDENTS OF DOROTHY DUNN AT THE STUDIO OF THE SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 1930'S. HE HAD, HOWEVER, STARTED PAINTING EARLIER, AS EARLY AS THE 1920'S AND CONTINUED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1979. HIS COMPLETE NAME WAS JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA AND HIS NATIVE NAME WAS SPELLED SOQUEEN, SOQWEEN, SO KWA A WEH, WHICH TRANSLATES TO FROST ON THE MOUNTAIN. THOSE WHO REMEMBER HIM IN HIS LATER YEARS RECALL THAT HE WAS CALLED ENKY (PRONOUNCED “INKY”). JOSÉ ENCARNACION PEÑA (1902-1979) SOQWEEN - SO KWA A WEH (FROST ON THE MOUNTAIN) - ENKY WAS PAINTING AT SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO AT THE SAME TIME AS TONITA PEÑA, RICAHARD MARTÍNEZ, LUÍS GONZALES, ABEL SÁNCHEZ, AND ROMANDO VIGIL. HE WAS NOT VERY PRODUCTIVE IN THE EARLY YEARS BUT BECAME SO ABOUT TEN YEARS BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY. HE IS REPRESENTED IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LABORATORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SANTA FE; MUS... Read full biography
Jose Encarnacion (Soqween) Pena - Artist Info
About Jose Encarnacion (Soqween) Pena: Books
Books & Publications (7)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
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
Pueblo Indian Painting Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico 1900-1930
1997
Brody, J J
225 pages (color)
Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art
1980
Tanner, Clara Lee
477 pages (color)
American Indian Painting of the Southwest and Plains Areas
1968
Dunn, Dorothy
429 pages (color)
American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory