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San Ildefonso Pueblo Single Figure Bonnet Dancer by Richard Martinez - C3839A
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Sat, Oct 22nd 2016, 1:04pm
Richard Martinez was not one of the San Ildefonso Pueblo youngsters who attended the San Ildefonso Day School during 1900-1907 when the teacher at that time, Esther Hoyt, provided her students with paper and paints and encouraged them to paint subjects with which they were familiar such as ceremonial dancers in the plaza. Her classes were for students from age 5 to age 12. Martinez had been born in 1904 so was too young to reap the benefits of the teacher's generosity to her students even though it was against U. S. Government policy to encourage such acts.