Original Painting “Ladies Spring Dance” [SOLD]

Diane Calabaza (b.1954 -) He'Shi Flower is not recorded in any of my artist reference books.  A person who knows Calabazaa informed us that she is the daughter of San Ildefonso potter Blue Corn, whose name was Crucita Calabaza, and that she still resides at San Ildefonso.

Update:  thanks to a person from California who knows Diane Calabaza, we now know that she is a daughter of Blue Corn and she still resides at San Ildefonso Pueblo.

Diane indicated on the back of this painting that it was painted with “natural earth colors.” I am unsure if she meant that the paints were made from mineral earth materials or if she only meant that the shading was earth colors. 

It is a charming painting of four women performing the Ladies Spring Dance and the drummer is also a female.  So it is a painting of females by a female artist.  It is signed in lower right He’Shi Flower and dated 1977.

Condition: appears to be in original condition

Provenance: from the collection of a Santa Fe family, the mother of which once worked at the Case Trading Post of the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, probably the source of her painting collection.