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Original Loloma Stone Lithograph “Mudheads” by Charles Loloma - C3838K
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Wed, Oct 19th 2016, 11:34am
Charles Loloma is most famous for his imaginative jeweler but he also was a painter, a sculptor, a potter, a basket maker, a designer of houses and a stained glass artist. He then became a lithographer in 1980.
Loloma was born in the village of Hotevilla on the Hopi Reservation in 1920. His father was a weaver and his mother a basket maker. As a child, he began painting and by the time he graduated from High School, he had already illustrated a book for Edward Kennard. Loloma's jewelry made him a famous and wealthy man but it did not quench his thirst for finding another manner of expressing his artistic talents.