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Biography: Garnet Pavatea (1915-1981) Flower Girl
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Mar 15th 2013, 11:41am
Garnet Pavatea was known as Flower Girl and she was a Hopi-Tewa from, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery an...
Read More Biography: Frances P. Torivio (1905-2001)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Mar 15th 2013, 11:32am
Frances Torivio was a sister of Lolita Concho and the mother of Lilly, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery a...
Read More Subject: Historic Polacca Polychrome “Style C” Bowl, circa 1860-1880
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Mar 14th 2013, 9:52pm
Polacca pottery style began around 1740. It did not fully become the predominant type at Hopi until about 1800, and it continued until about 1890. ...
Read More Subject: Acoma Four-color Olla with Parrot Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Mar 12th 2013, 6:19pm
Frances Torivio was a sister of Lolita Concho and the mother of Lilly Salvador and Wanda Aragon. She was one of the important matriarchs of Acoma a...
Read More Title: Navajo Folk Art Wood Carving “Man on Motorcycle”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, Mar 12th 2013, 6:09pm
Harrison Juan has been carving the cottonwood he finds along the creek beds of the San Juan River for over 35 years. He was born in Lake Valley and...
Read More Biography: Harrison Begay (1914-2012)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Mon, Mar 11th 2013, 3:02pm
Harrison Begay, or Haskay Yahne Yah The Wandering Boy, to his knowledge, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery...
Read More Biography: Glenna Goodacre (1939- )
Category: Artists | Posted by | Mon, Mar 11th 2013, 2:52pm
Goodacre was born in Lubbock, Texas, but lives in Santa Fe. She had, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and...
Read More Title: Bronze Sculpture “Dance Day”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Mon, Mar 11th 2013, 2:47pm
Glenna Goodacre is a well-known, perhaps the best known, female sculpture artist. Her sculptural works appear in public, private, municipal and mu...
Read More Subject: Oval Shaped Serving Basket with Handles
Category: Baskets | Posted by | Mon, Mar 11th 2013, 11:56am
Jicarilla Apache basketry covers a long span of time, but very little is known of their work before they were settled on a reservation in 1887 in n...
Read More Title: Original Wood Block Print "Torrey Pine"
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Sun, Mar 10th 2013, 9:08pm
Gustav Baumann was born in Germany but immigrated to the United States as a child with his parents. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and ...
Read More Subject: Hopi Sikyatki-style Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sun, Mar 10th 2013, 8:31pm
Garnet Pavatea was known as Flower Girl and she was a Hopi-Tewa from the Tewa Village on First Mesa. Her dad, Dewakuku, was Hopi and her mother wa...
Read More Subject: Diné (Navajo) Pair of Original Paintings of Feather Dancers
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Sun, Mar 10th 2013, 7:59pm
The Navajo Feather Dance is one that entails a drummer who, during the dance, beats upon an overturned basket to provide the beat for the dancer. ...
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