Pablita Velarde - Hummingbirds (ca. 1950)

Women's History Month

Pablita Velarde (1918–2006)

Pablita Velarde was born in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. She attended an Indian school and it was there her talent was recognized and fostered.

Velarde learned to paint with watercolors in the flatline style (fig. 1). In the 1950s Pablita Velarde learned to create pigments derived from natural sources, developing a similar process to fresco secco. (fig. 2)

Pablta Velarde is considered one of the most important artists of the American Southwest. She has won numerous awards and honors and her work can be found in many museums worldwide.

Fig 1: Basketmaking • 1940

Fig. 2: The Turtle Dance • 1953 • Watercolor (derived from natural sources)

The four-quadrant painting above memorializes and preserves the crafts that were a mainstay of Pueblo communities for many generations. In the lower right, drum makers are depicted; going around the circle clockwise, the pottery makers, the jewelers, and the moccasin makers. (Fig. 2)

References:

• Wikipedia

• Medicine Man Gallery: Pablita Velarde biography

• Indian Pueblo Cultural Center of Albuquerque

• Craftsmanship Magazine

Jack rabbits by artist Pablita Velarde from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM.

Rainbow Dancer

Pablita Velarde

Pablita Velarde (Tse Tsan), Hohokam Men and Women, 1964, Earth pigments on Masonite, 7/20/22 #philbrook by Sharon Mollerus

Pablita Velarde (born Tse Tsan) (Pueblo/American, 1918-2016) - Untitled (Jack Rabbits) (n.d.)

Pablita Velarde (Tse Tsan, 1918-2006) — Eagle Dancers   (mineral earth painting on board, 1967)

Pablita Velarde [Tse Tsan] - (Santa Clara, 1918 - 2006)  Untitled (Jack Rabbits), ca. 1965   earth pigments on board, 20.32 x 25.40 cm.

Pablita Velarde (1918-2006) was a Pueblo painter working in the New Mexico area. She was one of the most accomplished Native American artists of her time.

She was one of the first female students ever accepted into the Santa Fe Studio Art School. She was later commissioned by the National Park Service to paint traditional Pueblo scenes at the Bandelier National Monument. Her work can be admired at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, or in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, among others.

Above: Basketmaking, 1940

spirit figure - pablita velarde (tewa, 1918-2006) 

mineral painting on masonite 

Pablita Velarde

Born in Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico in 1918, she is also known as Tse Tsan ("Golden Dawn") and is New Mexico's only living New Deal woman artist. She was schooled at St. Catherine Indian School as a child and later studied with Dorothy Dunn at the U.S. Indian School in Santa Fe along with other Native American artists who also worked in the New Deal Federal Art Project. Her major collection of New Deal art can be found at Bandelier National Monument where she was hired by the National Park Service to paint renderings of pueblo daily life. While somewhat controversial among her pueblo elders this gave her the opportunity to make needed funds to build her home and to truly stabilize her career as an artist. Both her son and daughter followed in her artistic endeavors and now her granddaughter is also a successful artist. She resides in Albuquerque and continues to paint with some visual limitations and also creates dolls depicting the traditional clothing of each Native American tribe in New Mexico.

http://www.lizcollinshistoryclasses.com/depression-the-new-deal--hope-in-new-mexico.html

Eagle Dancer (mineral earth painting on board, 1980s) Pablita Velarde

Rabbit Dancers, Pablita Velarde, 20th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Art of Africa and the Americas

four dancing figures wearing identical costumes: black and white headdresses with pairs of feathers; yellow and brown fur pelts around their necks and mouths, each with a pair of downward-hanging animal feet; green short skirts with black geometric patterns at hem; belts with jingle bells; black and white moccasins; grey stockings with green and red ties at the knees; figures each hold a rattle in one hand and a pine branch in the other hands; grey ground with stepped patterns in different shades of grey at top and bottom Size: 22 13/16 × 15 3/16 in. (57.94 × 38.58 cm) (sight) 31 × 25 × 1 1/4 in. (78.74 × 63.5 × 3.18 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Gouache (?) on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/121435/

Pablita Velarde Betrothal

1953-Heard-Museum-Collection

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