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Original Santa Clara Painting of a Pueblo Eagle Dancer by Pablita Velarde - C3058
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Tue, Aug 9th 2016, 1:07pm
Pablita Velarde (1918-2006) Tse Tsan - Golden Dawn was perhaps one of the most compelling of the early pueblo artists. She produced unique and superlative works of the highest quality. This image, depicting a single eagle dancer, is superbly rendered on a colorful background of sprayed paint in gradating values, the pattern being a stepped motif at the lower portion and a circular pattern outlining the wing motions of the eagle, a powerful foil to the monumental figuration.
The main figure is superbly and precisely rendered in Pablita Velarde's inimitable style; each object, be it feather, head piece, sash, or kilt treated with the most beautiful detail and attention to the finest of subtleties.