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It has been observed that when Helen Hardin was involved in a painting, she was totally involved until that painting was completed.  Her life was dedicated to her work as she retreated into the spirituality of what she was doing.  Born of a Santa Clara Pueblo woman, Pablita Velarde, and a non-Indian man, raised in Albuquerque away from pueblo events, she nevertheless drew on her Native culture.  She had no patience to follow the two-dimensional painting style of the Santa Fe Indian Schoolto which so many other artists were following. 

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