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Item Ships From: New Mexico
The Tailor, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Richard Tuschman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Tailor, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
“Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz is a novella told in staged photographs. It portrays an episode in the life of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clarity 2
By Amy Van Winkle
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Encaustic on panel.
It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New Mexico - Art
Materials
Encaustic
Antique Indonesian Horse, yellow, red, sculpture, free standing
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Antique Indonesian Horse, yellow, red, sculpture, free-standing, vintage, walking
Some wear on paint and crack that has been repaired.
Category
20th Century Tribal New Mexico - Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Tiger" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Walking Tiger"
Antoine Louis-Barye
Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot
Circa. 1870
11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches
This is "Walking Tig...
Category
1870s Realist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Black and White
Yellow Study
By Thomas Slate
Located in Santa Fe, NM
acrylic on canvas
blue white yellow red orange
can hang vertically or horizontally
Thomas starts with several layers of acrylic, using processes of contrasting colors and surface te...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Rooster and Hens in the Barnyard William Baptiste Baird (U.S./France 1847-1917)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Rooster and Hens in the Barnyard
William Baptiste Baird (U.S./France 1847-1917)
Oil on panel
Signed lower right "W. Baird"
12 1/4 x 9 inches
A stunning example of William Baptiste...
Category
1880s Barbizon School New Mexico - Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
White Horse and Rider with Blue
By James Koskinas
Located in East Hampton, NY
James Koskinas_
White Horse and Rider with Blue, 60 X 48 acrylic on canvas
Not framed. Does not need to be framed.
This large scale painting of a head hints at Picasso.
Both technic...
Category
2010s Cubist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“In June (Im Juni)” By Julius Paul Junghanns dated "1913"
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“In June (Im Juni)”
Julius Paul Junghanns (German, 1876-1958)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated “1913,” titled on reverse
18 ½ x 23 1/4 (27 1/4 x 31...
Category
1910s Impressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tulle no. 24, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA
By Thomas Jackson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lucky, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lucky, 2023 is a recent archival pigment ink print by Maggie Taylor. All prints are signed and numbered by Maggie Taylor.
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Antique Exceptional Bronze Draft Horse by Pierre Jules Mêne (French, 1810-1879)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Bronze
Exceptional Bronze of a Draft Horse
Pierre Jules Mêne (French, 1810-1879)
Circa 1860s
4 3/4 (W) x 3.25 (H)
As Mêne personally ov...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic New Mexico - Art
Materials
Bronze
Antique Horse Painting "Standing Grey Horse, Facing Right" Georg Wolf dated 1907
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Painting
“Standing Grey Horse, Facing Right”
Georg Wolf (Germany 1882-1962)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1907 lower right
27 x 19 (35 x 27 frame) inches
With it's bobbed tail cut short so it doesn't become tangled, it's apparent that this fine specimen was a draught horse...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
April Sky, Pedernal
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange
framed in brown frame
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still of Flowers in a Blue Vase Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985)
By Pierre Ambrogiani
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Still Life of Flowers in a Blue Vase"
Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985)
Oil on panel
Circa 1960
15 3/4 x 20 (20 1/4 x 24 1/2 frame) inches
If the artists Diego Velázquez (Spai...
Category
1950s Expressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Linen no. 6, Assateague Island, MD
By Thomas Jackson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
“View of Villefranche-sur-Mer” Raymond Thibesart Raymond Thibesart (1874-1968)
By Raymond Thibesart
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“View of Villefranche-sur-Mer”
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Oil on canvas, circa 1920s
24 x 32 1/2 (29 x 38 1/2 framed) inches
Bathed in the soft and steamy light of the S...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist "Moorish Soldier Holding a Rifle" Manuel Garcia Hispaleto
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Moorish Soldier Holding a Rifle"
Manuel Garcia Hispaleto (Spanish, 1836-1898)
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left "MGHispaleto"
Original wood frame with gilded stucco
18 3/4 x 12 1/2 (33 1/2 x 26 frame) inches
Manuel García Hispaleto, originally Manuel García y Martínez (22 November 1836, Seville -26 December 1898, Madrid) was a Spanish painter known for portraits and costumbrista (genre) scenes. His brother, Rafael García...
Category
1850s Realist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Shiny Shell
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
$1,170
Birds Soaring
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...
Category
2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic
Pineapple Meander Mesa
Located in Santa Fe, NM
It was the tumult of the sixties that compelled me to drop out of Swarthmore College, move “back to the land” and become an intuitive artist. I believed that if we were to survive a...
Category
2010s Abstract New Mexico - Art
Materials
Steel
"The White House in Morocco, 1901" E. Baily Hilda (Austrian, 1855-1955)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The White in Morocco, 1901"
E. Baily Hilda (Austrian, 1855-1955)
Oil on panel
Signed and dedicated lower right, "To my cousin Louis, affectionate memory"
15 x 12 inches frame size
...
Category
Early 1900s New Mexico - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rare Hilarity
Located in Santa Fe, NM
mixed media
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melissa Zink
Born 1932
Kansas City, Missouri
Died 2009 (aged 76–77)
Taos, New Mexico
Nationality American
Occupation(s) Artist, Sculptor
Melissa Zink (1932-2009) was an American artist. An active member of the Taos, New Mexico art scene, she blended storytelling with sculpture, and described the enchantment of books and the imaginary worlds they evoked as the focus of her work.[1] Critics lauded her as a "late bloomer" because she only began to exhibit and sell her multi-media works of ceramics, cast bronze, and collage, when she was in her forties.[2] She became known for her "three-dimensional stories" and "dream-like dioramas" in clay, interior scenes that blend whimsy with surrealism.[2][1] Later she cast large bronze statues of human figures embossed with texts drawn from dictionaries and illuminated manuscripts.[2] In 2001 she won a Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts from the state of New Mexico.[3] In 2021, one of her works featured in a special exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art entitled, "Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwich," which featured a group of artists in the 1970s and 1980s who together launched a movement described as "new Western art" or "Southwest pop".[4]
Education and career
Melissa Zink was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended the Emma Willard School, Swarthmore College, the University of Chicago, and the Kansas City Art Institute.[5] She later admitted that her professors' efforts to push her and her peers towards abstract expressionism during the 1950s deterred her from pursuing a career in art.[2] Instead she worked for many years by designing picture frames and operating an embroidery and craft shop while continuing to paint and experiment with various media in her free time.[6] In her forties, she married Nelson Zink, who encouraged her to pursue her artistic ambitions.
The owner of the Parks Gallery in Taos, which represented her for many years, described her works as aiming to replicate through multi-media art the "book experience, that altered state of consciousness we enter when engrossed in a book."[7] Though known primarily for her clay dioramas and bronze figural sculptures, in later years she also created multi-media, collage wall hangings that incorporated fabrics and painted elements.[1]
In 2000 Zink represented New Mexico at an exhibit of women artists called "From the States" held at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts.[1] In 2006 the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos staged an exhibition on her work.[8] In 2009, following her death, the Taos Art Museum and Fechin House staged a memorial exhibition entitled, "Melissa Zink: Her Singular World."[9]
She featured among leading women artists in the book Exposures: Women & Their Art by Betty Ann Brown...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Landscape Painting of Dijon France, Burgundy Canal by Jean Boulay (1937-1994) A
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Landscapes: Dijon France, Burgundy Canal
Jean Boulay (French, 1937-1994)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated
21 1/2 x 15 inches (each)
The pair landscape...
Category
1970s Expressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Clouds
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange
framed in brown frame
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist African Hunter Leaning on His Shield 19th cent. Black Forest, German
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Orientalist African Hunter Leaning on His Shield
Black Forest, School Switzerland 19th century
Carved Wood
21 inches
This is an exceptionally beautifu...
Category
19th Century Academic New Mexico - Art
Materials
Wood
Basket, Wounaan Tribe Panama Darien Rainforest, gold, black, red, white
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Basket, Wounaan Tribe Panama Darien Rainforest, gold, black, red, white
Category
1990s Tribal New Mexico - Art
Materials
Organic Material
Santa Fe Sage
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange
framed in brown frame
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman, Dog, Bed
By Robert Stivers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...
Category
1980s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Emphasis" unique bronze sculpture
By Frank Morbillo
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Geometric and abstract bronze sculpture. Finished with a rich, dark brown patina on the two angular, geometric sections, and a soft green and bronze patina on the abstracted "rip" be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Bronze
Babysitter, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Babysitter, 2006 by Julie Blackmon is from her ongoing series Domestic Vacations.
The Dutch proverb “a Jan Steen household” originated in the 17th century and is used today to refe...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marine Painting "Trois Pêcheurs" Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1948)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Trois Pêcheurs"
Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1948)
Oil on board
Signed l.l.
7 7/8 x 4 7/8 (8 1/8 x 11 1/8 frame) inches
Louis Pastour was called the “...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Talavie, by Dan Namingha, Hopi desert landscape, village scene, blues, reds
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Talavie, Hopi desert landscape, village scene, blues, reds, by Dan Namingha
hand pulled limited edition lithograph
signed and numbered by the artist
Category
1980s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Still Life of Mushrooms in Undergrowth" French circa 1830s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Still Life of Mushrooms in Undergrowth"
French circa 1830's-1840's
Oil on canvas
Illegibly initialed lower right
17 3/4 x 13 1/4 (25 1/2 x 21 frame) inches
This deftly painted depi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Vie #71, Yoshida Kenji, nihonga painting, silver gold copper leaf cobalt, Japan
By Kenji Yoshida
Located in Santa Fe, NM
La Vie #71, Yoshida Kenji, nihonga painting, silver gold copper leaf cobalt, Japan
Yoshida was born in 1924 in Ikeda City (part of present-day Osaka). He studied art under the grea...
Category
1990s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Father/Son I
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
Category
1990s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pahlik Mana (Butterfly Maiden) Dan Namingha Hopi kachina katsina black and white
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pahlik Mana (Butterfly Maiden) Dan Namingha Hopi kachina katsina black and white
unframed limited edition hand pulled lithograph at Tamarind Institue
Glenn Green Galleries also pre...
Category
1970s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique Dog Painting of a Terrier- "The Shah" George Earl (England, 1824-1908)
By George Earl
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of a Terrier: “The Shah”
George Earl (England, 1824-1908)
Circa 1870
Oil on canvas.
12 ¾ x 12 ¾ (21 x 21 frame) inches.
Orig...
Category
1860s Realist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tirana, Albania, 2012
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Antique Pair of Russian Wolf Hound/Borzoi Dog Portrait Sculptures circa 1930's
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Pair of Russian Wolfhounds/Borzois Dog Portrait Sculptures
by Scalini (aka Scali; Italian, 20th century)
circa 1930's
Patinated spelter
9 x 14 inches (on bases)
Though rath...
Category
1920s Art Deco New Mexico - Art
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
$2,310 Sale Price
40% Off
Face Jar 13
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Artist Statement
I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...
Category
2010s Folk Art New Mexico - Art
Materials
Ceramic
La Vallée de la Seine- Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
By Raymond Thibesart
Located in SANTA FE, NM
La Vallée de la Seine
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Pastel on paper, 1939
Signed l.l.
12.5 x 9.5 (16 x 13 framed) inches
INV Nbr. 1939
This...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Seine" Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
By Raymond Thibesart
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Seine (Cerisiers en Fleurs sur la Seine)"
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Pastel on paper, circa 1920s
Signed lower right
Circa 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 ( ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Pastel
Hilltop, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph, signed and numbered
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Hilltop, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph, signed and numbered
When looking at Julie Blackmon’s “Hilltop,” notice the elements that are in motion: the grass on the h...
Category
2010s New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Horse in Moonlight
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Cranach Series - photo-eye EDITIONS Portfolio
By Carla van de Puttelaar
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"While Carla van de Puttelaar's full-length nudes do indeed evoke Cranach's Venus - with their pale bodies posed graciously against an all-consuming black background - they are quite...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Coastline
Located in Santa Fe, NM
acrylic, mixed media on canvas
My paintings explore the themes of light, atmosphere, and the emotional impact of nature. The bold, expressive brushstrokes and saturated hues in my w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$3,200
Rippling, limited edition lithograph, Japanese, black, white, red, signed
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Rippling, limited edition lithograph, Japanese, black, white, red, signed,number
Category
1990s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Avenue of the Giants, California, USA
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
With all her might
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates evocative single-scene narratives in her whimsical and elaborate photomontages. Working intuitively, Taylor combines 19th Century photographs, found objects, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Recurring Dream
By Cynthia Young
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Blue, lavender, purple, water, sky
31 x 31"
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hyomon, Study 1, Hokkaido, Japan, black and white, limited edition photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Hyomon, Study 1, Hokkaido, Japan is a black and white, limited edition photograph by photographer Michael Kenna.
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for c...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Canal and Trees, Goro Ferrara, Veneto, Italy
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential among...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rattlesnake
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846" François Bonvin (1817-1888)
By François Bonvin
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846
(Etude d'après Nature Faite à Montfaucon, 1846)
François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887)
Oil on canvas, original hand carved wood frame.
Signed, dated and inscribed F. Bonvin 1846 a Montfaucon (ll); inscribed indistinctly Etude... F. Bonvin...montfaucon on the stretcher
6 3/8 x 8 5/8 (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 frame) inches
Provenance:
Ex Collection Auguste Péquégnot
Paul Prouté
André Watteau
Charles Sadler
Galerie Berès, Paris
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Beres, Francois Bonvin, Nov. 20, 1998 - Jan. 9, 1999
Literature:
International Herald Tribune, Nov. 28-29, 1998, p. 9, illus.
Bonvin's work has been compared with that of the eighteenth-century artist Chardin, whom Bonvin greatly admired, and from whose work he often borrowed particular motifs. Amongst the artists he personally encouraged were Théodule Ribot and Fantin-Latour.
He was one of a group of artists who challenged the idea that still-life was a mode of artistic expression inferior to the lofty genre of history and religious painting. Bonvin championed the Realist conviction that everyday subject matter was the trues form of artistic expression.
Bonvin was known for keen observation skills and great restraint. In his paintings, you can almost feel the moment between breaths as the subject matter is contemplated and then committed to canvas. This a superb, very personal and very quiet study of the village of Montfaucon on what appears to be an afternoon in the Argonne region in Northeastern France known its deep valleys and dense woodlands.
François is one of the most interesting painters of the 19th century. Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris and had a very difficult childhood. He was the son of a police officer and a seamstress; when he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis. Young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him. Soon his father married another seamstress and brought the child back into the household. Nine additional children were born (one of whom was his half-brother, the painter Leon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist New Mexico - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Star-Vu Drive-in theater, Longmont, Colorado; July, 1980
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Vanishing Vernacular series.
Vanishing Vernacular features a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
Category
1940s Tribal New Mexico - Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Santorini
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category
1980s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wounaan Tribe Panama Rainforest Basket black, white geometric rectangle
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Wounaan Tribe Panama Rainforest Basket black, white geometric rectangle
hand woven, palm fibers natural dye
Tribal artwork
The baskets are made by ...
Category
1990s Tribal New Mexico - Art
Materials
Organic Material
Moon at Sunrise
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Birds on Wire
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be made in the nuclear reactor of stars. It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –stars...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
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