Julián Martinez Pocano (Coming of the Spirits) was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico, and died in San Ildefonso Pueblo. He is perhaps best known for the designs he painted on his wife... Read full biography
Julián Martinez Pocano (Coming of the Spirits) was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico, and died in San Ildefonso Pueblo. He is perhaps best known for the designs he painted on his wife Maria's famous pottery. Martinez had no formal art training. He was the father of Tony Martinez (Popovi... Read full biography
Julián Martinez Pocano (Coming of the Spirits) was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico, and died in San Ildefonso Pueblo. He is perhaps best known for the designs he painted on his wife Maria's famous pottery. Martinez had no formal art training. He was the father of Tony Martinez (Popovi Da), also a well known Pueblo artist. In addition to artist, Martinez listed his occupation as "farmer, laborer, janitor, and pottery designer," (Lester, p. 343). He also served as Governor of San... Read full biography
Julián Martinez Pocano (Coming of the Spirits) was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico, and died in San Ildefonso Pueblo. He is perhaps best known for the designs he painted on his wife Maria's famous pottery. Martinez had no formal art training. He was the father of Tony Martinez (Popovi Da), also a well known Pueblo artist. In addition to artist, Martinez listed his occupation as "farmer, laborer, janitor, and pottery designer," (Lester, p. 343). He also served as Governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo. According to Snodgrass, Martinez had been painting since 1920 and had gone through several periods of 'realistic' paintings, but some of his more outstanding works were his abstract symbolic and geometric designs found on Maria's... Read full biography
Julián Martinez Pocano (Coming of the Spirits) was born in San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico, and died in San Ildefonso Pueblo. He is perhaps best known for the designs he painted on his wife Maria's famous pottery. Martinez had no formal art training. He was the father of Tony Martinez (Popovi Da), also a well known Pueblo artist. In addition to artist, Martinez listed his occupation as "farmer, laborer, janitor, and pottery designer," (Lester, p. 343). He also served as Governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo. According to Snodgrass, Martinez had been painting since 1920 and had gone through several periods of 'realistic' paintings, but some of his more outstanding works were his abstract symbolic and geometric designs found on Maria's pottery. Martinez' paintings were among those selected by Mary Jane Colter to decorate the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mex... Read full biography
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About Julian Martinez: Books
Books & Publications (29)
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Pueblo Indians of New Mexico Postcard History Series
2008
Nickens, Paul and Kathleen
127 pages (color)
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
Images of America: Los Alamos 1944-1947
2005
Gibson, Toni Michnovicz; Jon Michnovicz
128 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)
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 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)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 pages (color)
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 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
Native American Painting Selections/Museum of American Indian
1982
Fawcett, David/C A Callander
95 pages (color)
Legacy of the West
1982
Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher
157 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art
1980
Tanner, Clara Lee
477 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
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)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index