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Maidu Dancers

Harry Fonseca

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Title: Maidu Dancers
Artist: Harry Fonseca
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24" height X 36" width
Frame: Painted wood molding
Frame size: 25" height X 37" width
Signed: "Fonseca 79" at viewer's lower left, "Maidu Dancers"
Date of creation: 1979
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: From the AP Fenderson collection; Quick Inquiry Email Friend

About The Maidu Dancers

As Harry was Portuguese, Hawaiian and Nisenan-Maidu (American Indian), his exploration of one aspect of his heritage was certainly justified. We all have some curiosity about our countries of origin. It is likely that Ancestors.com is one of the more popular websites currently on the internet.

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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