A Pair of Pueblo Animal Dancers [SOLD]

There are two individual paintings of pueblo animal dancers which have been framed together in a single frame.  One is a Deer Dancer and the other a Ram Dancer.  Both are similar in style and size and both by Joseph Tapia, a painter from Tesuque Pueblo who passed away in 1991 at the young age of 32 years.  The paintings have been framed so that the two dancers face each other.

The artist attended Bacone College in Oklahoma.  In 1986 he won a 1^st Place award at Santa Fe Indian Market for a painting. And in 1989, he picked up a 2^nd Place award also at Santa Fe Indian Market.  He was recognized as an outstanding artist with a successful career ahead.

It is not difficult to see why he won awards at Santa Fe Indian Market when one looks at the finite detail in every aspect of these two paintings—from the dancers clothing, the green ruff and even the designs set off to the edge of each painting.  Both paintings are signed in lower right and are presented in one frame.

Condition: This painting of a Pair of Pueblo Animal Dancers appears to be in original condition.  The small brown spot on the lower right of the Ram Dancer painting appears to be a drop of paint.

Recommended Reading:  Pueblo Indian Painting: Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico, 1900-1930 by J. J. Brody, et al.

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Albuquerque