California, New Mexico. 1902 - 1978
Indian ceremonial dance painting, commercial artist
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1895 San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico - 1949 San Ildelfonso Pueblo, New Mexico. Known for: Native American, genre, animal and figure painting.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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
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 instructor Dorothy Dunn gave her classes at the Santa Fe Indian School. A resident of Chochiti Pueblo after she ma... Read full biography
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New Mexico. 1897 - 1943
Abstract animal-figure painting and pottery design motifs
New Mexico, Arizona. 1895 - 1955
Painter-animal, figural native symbols
New Mexico. 1902 - 1973
Pueblo dance genre painting, illustration
Arizona. 1933 - 1974
Ceremonial figure, Indian motif
NM, New Mexico. 1918 - 1974
Figure, animal
Arizona. 1900 - 1986
Indian ceremonial dance and figure painting, murals
New Mexico, Arizona. 1921 - 1956
Indian genre painting, symbolism
New Mexico, California, Arizona. 1908 - 1993
Native figure, animal easel and mural painting
New Mexico, Colorado. 1930 - 1995
Illustrator, ceramist, painter
New Mexico. 1917 - 1952
Native figure, genre, wildlife, mural
New Mexico. 1899 - 1971
Indian genre and mural painting
Arizona. 1929 - 2012
Figure, genre-ceremonial dance, animal in landscape, Indian
New Mexico. 1922 - 1978
Native American pottery and painting-Tewa clowns
New Mexico. 1918 - 2006
Painting-genre, Indian figure, animal-design
Arizona. 1916 - 2000
Figure, Indian ceremony-dance, mural
Arizona, New Mexico. 1926 - 1984
Abstract, Native American and non-objective painting, symbolism
New Mexico. 1943 - 1984
Geometric abstract Indian imagery painting
Arizona. 1942 - 2009
Petroglyph-geometric imagery painting, murals, jewelry making
New Mexico. 1935 - 2013
Stylized Indian domestic genre paintings, textiles, fiber art
New Mexico. 1889 - 1960
Figure-cermonial and animal painting-primitive
Arizona, New Mexico. 1914 - 2012
Genre-Indian, wildlife, and mural painting, silkscreen
Arizona. 1938 - 1972
Figure, genre, landscape, mural
New Mexico. 1904 - 2001
Polished blackware Indian pottery-bearpaw design
Oklahoma. 1914 - 1988
Painting
Oklahoma, Kansas. 1911 - 1992
Ceremonial, traditional style dance-genre painting
New Mexico, Arizona. Born 1950
Mod Indian motif painting-abstraction and realism
New Mexico. Born 1962
Santa Clara Pueblo motif sculpture and pottery
Oklahoma. 1932 - 1996
Native American scene, landscape
New Mexico. 1902 - 1979
Ceremonial figure, Indian designs
Arizona, Oklahoma. 1939 - 2016
Stylized Indian figures with blanket paintings, symobism
New Mexico, California. 1914 - 1994
Indian figure sculpture, painting