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Navajo Ceremonial Antelope Hunt by Ha So De (Narciso Abeyta) - C3807
Narciso Abeyta was known for his Indian-themed paintings, which, stylistically, are atypical of most of the Indian art of his generation. Abeyta attended the Santa Fe Indian School and the University of New Mexico. He also participated in exhibitions throughout the United States and in Paris, France. He won awards at the San Francisco Fair and at the New Mexico State Fair. He was living in Gallup, New Mexico, at the time of his tragic death.
Abeyta regularly utilized a "somber" color palette, as Clara Lee Tanner refers to it in her book Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art (see reference link below). She states that he tended towards blacks, browns, burnt ochre and reds. Tanner also notes that Abeyta was more interested in "bold effects than in minute detail."