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San Ildefonso Pueblo Painting of Pueblo Harvest Dancers by Gilbert Atencio - C3883D
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Mon, Mar 6th 2017, 3:39pm
The nephew of famed San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, Gilbert Atencio (Wah Peen) was born in 1930. He was one of the youngest San Ildefonso painters. A student at the Santa Fe Indian School, Atencio had already had a museum show by age twenty and had garnered many awards for his work before that.
This painting of three participants in a San Ildefonso Harvest Dance was painted by Atencio when he was 18 years of age, probably still in school at the time. It is dated 1948. The preciseness for which he was to become famous later in his art career is already evident in this early painting. The faces of the three are beautifully detailed.