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San Ildefonso Pueblo Painting Eagle Capturing a Rabbit by Richard Martinez - C3827A
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Tue, Dec 20th 2016, 3:04pm
Richard Martinez was one of the earlier painters from San Ildefonso Pueblo, painting as early as 1920. He was well established as an artist before The Studio at the Santa Fe Indian School was begun in 1932 under the tutelage of Dorothy Dunn. He was one of the original students at Santa Fe Indian School and was commissioned to paint a mural in the student dining room in 1936. The mural was destroyed a few years ago, when the All Pueblo Council demolished all the old buildings at the Indian School. None of the murals in any of the buildings were saved.