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Original Painting of an Antelope by Teeyacheena (Rafael Medina) - C3808A
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Tue, Aug 9th 2016, 4:05pm
Clara Lee Tanner, in her book Southwest Indian Painting, stated that Rafael Medina studied at Albuquerque under Velino Herrera (Ma Pe Wi) and José Rey Toledo. She does not state that he attended the Albuquerque Indian School but perhaps that is where he studied before entering the Santa Fe Indian School. Neither Dunn nor Tanner is clear about that. Medina attended the Santa Fe Indian School after the departure of Dorothy Dunn and during the tenure of art teacher Gerónima Montoya, probably entering school in the early 1940s. Following high school, he attended the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe.