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Carl Everton Moon (1879-1948)
An Ohioan by birth, Carl Moon apprenticed for six years, learning the art of photography working for various studios in Cincinnati, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia. He opened his own photographic studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico in about 1903. After struggling for several years, a chance meeting with the publisher John Adams Thayer, provided him with an entre into the New York publishing scene. His sensitively posed photographs of Southwestern [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sofia Pino Medina (1932- )
Sofia Pino Medina was trained by her grandmother-in-law, Trinidad Medina, who encouraged her to create in traditional styles and sizes; providing some of the largest Zia vessels in the second-half of the 20th century. Her work is found in collections of The American School of American Research, Harvard University, and the Peabody Museum. In addition her pottery is published in American Indian Art Magazine 1981, 1990, 1995 and most [...] Click here to continue reading.
THE LIVINGSTONS OF THE LIVINGSTON MANOR
The Livingston dynasty is among the most important in American history. Members of the family settled in colonial New York in the seventeenth century and soon ranked among the patricians (their coat of arms is one of several represented in the capitol at Albany). Branches of the Livingston family were involved in major events throughout the past 300 years: members of the Continental Congress; signers of the Declaration [...] Click here to continue reading.
Don Lelooska (Don Smith, Native American, 1933 to 1996)
Don Lelooska or Smith was the first born of Mary Smith (Cherokee, Shona Hah). Adopted by the Kwakiutl Sewide Clan, Lelooska, whose name means he who cuts against wood, was taught the craft of carving by his grandfather, He-Killer. During the 1950s, Lelooska carved for the tourist trade helping in the revitalization of Northwest Coast art. From the 1970s until the early 1990s he educated [...] Click here to continue reading.
Katsina
According to sources on the Hopi Reservation the correct spelling of these Hopi spirit dolls is katsina. The Hopi do not have the “ch” sound (church) in their language. The white man has, over time, changed the word in spelling and pronunciation to be Kachina (the Anglicized version). The Handbook of North American Indians uses the spelling “kachina.” Both examples appear in auction catalogues, and we attempt to use both examples in the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eva Histia (born 1914)
Eva Histia of the Acoma Pueblo is renowned for her owls. Her work has been published, most recently in Berger & Schiffer (2000: 4, 16, 122), and can be found in the Heard Museum’s collection.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Charles W. Hargens (1893-1997)
Hargens was born in South Dakota. Growing up in the West gave Hargens the basis from which to paint his Western scenes. As his skill and interest in painting progressed, Hargens moved east to study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While at the Academy his work was influenced by instructor Daniel Garber. He became a member of the Society of Illustrators and the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Despite his new [...] Click here to continue reading.
Grace Nicholson, Dealer and Photographer
Grace Nicholson, active 1902 to 1915, was a California dealer in American Indian art at the turn of the century who used photography to document the pieces of art she bought and sold and the artists who created them. She was sympathetic to the American Indian and stated once, We must recognize the Indian as an individual and not a tribe. (Palmquist 1997: 239). Much of Nicholson’s photography and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Rudolf Carl Gorman (1932-2005)
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest’s best-known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man’s world with some calling him the “Picasso of Indian artists.” Of this kind of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Elling William Gollings (1878-1932)
The cowboy-painter and etcher Elling William (Bill) Gollings was born in 1878 in Pierce City, Idaho, raised on farms in Michigan and New York and died in 1932 in Sheridan, Wyoming. He worked on ranches throughout Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. After 1909 he lived and worked in a shack-studio producing his Western art.
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