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Coyote Koshare Sitting Melon

Harry Fonseca

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Title: Coyote Koshare Sitting Melon
Artist: Harry Fonseca
Medium: Pastel on paper
Paper size: 30" height X 22" width
Frame size: 37 3/4" height X 29 1/2" width
Signed: "Fonseca" at viewer's upper left
Date of creation: "Fonseca 82" on verso
Condition: Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed.
Provenance: From the AP Fenderson collection, originally acquired from the Elaine Horwitch Gallery; Quick Inquiry Email Friend

About The Coyote Koshare Sitting Melon

Fonseca's expression involving the coyote koshare is legend!

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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