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Stone Poem #19

Harry Fonseca

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Title: Stone Poem #19
Artist: Harry Fonseca
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Canvas size: 48" height X 36" width
Signed: Not visible
Date of creation: 1989
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: Consigned by AP Fenderson collection, originally acquired from the American Indian Contemporary Arts Gallery in San Francisco, California; Quick Inquiry Email Friend

About The Stone Poem #19

This vibrant composition is utterly rich using black, white and grey pigment in Harry's unique manner.

About Harry Fonseca

(1946-2006) Fonseca studied art at California State University, Sacramento earning his MFA in painting.

In 1976 he received a special projects grant from the California Arts Council to prepare a series of paintings and drawings documenting the Maidu Origin myth.

Frequently, Fonseca depicted the coyote, a legendary trickster found in many stories. He has a human-like personality and frequently falls victim to poor judgment. In a documentary film titled "Fonseca: In Search of a Coyote", the development of his coyote series was investigated. Two other bodies of work, one titled Stone Poems and the enigmatic St. Francis series were well received in Japan and Germany.

Fonseca's last canvases featured parallel horizontal bands of color, yielding a meditative quality when colors were subtle.

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