Achievements: The French government honored Awa Tsireh with the Palmes d’Académiques, an award for artists and academics. Today, his paintings are in numerous private collections and more than 30 museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum. | Name: Awa Tsireh (also known as Alfonso Roybal and Cattail Bird) Pronounce: Ah-wah See-day Movement: Modern Art, "San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group" Born: 1898 in Peublo (New Mexico) Died: 1955 Main Medium: Painting, Metalwork About the artist: "Awa Tsireh was one of the first Pueblo painters to receive recognition by the Santa Fe art community. In the 1920s, Awa Tsireh received sponsorship from the School of American Research, then a branch of the Museum of New Mexico, to devote his full time to painting." [Source] "He was deeply involved in dances and other aspects of traditional Pueblo life. In 1922, Awa Tsireh won first prize in painting at the first-ever Santa Fe Indian Market. Along with a handful of other Native artists, he sat at a workbench in the trading post and produced silver brooches, bracelets, spoons, and bowls, mostly in silver and copper, primarily for tourists. In 1929 and 1930, the work of Awa Tsireh and other Native American artists was represented at the Ibero- American Exposition in Seville, Spain." [Source] About the artwork: "His work represents an encounter between the art traditions of native Pueblo peoples in the Southwestern United States and the American modernist art style begun in New York." [Source] "Whimsical animal imagery in both mediums, painting and metalwork, points to a sense of humor. Strong colors, flattened figures on an empty background and highly stylized design elements appealed to the modernist art movement sensibility." [Source] |
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