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Original Painting of a Clown, Female Dancer and Drummer by Awa Tsireh - C3814A
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, Aug 26th 2016, 12:17pm
Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh) was many things to his pueblo of San Ildefonso: he was a farmer, pottery painter, museum employee, painter and silversmith. He was born in 1898 and died in 1955. He was painting before 1917. He was the oldest of the early group of pueblo painters. His formal education had not extended beyond primary grades. He was versatile in his styles of painting. He was equally comfortable with representational, semi-realistic, conventional, and abstract.