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Small Blue Horse

Pop Chalee

Small Blue Horse, Paintings by Pop Chalee

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Women Artists, American Indian

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Paintings

Subject

Animals, Horses

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Pop Chalee, Pop Chalee painting

Item Purchased
Marked Down $1,800.00
Gallery Price $3,000.00
Title
Small Blue Horse
Artist
Pop Chalee
Medium
Gouache on black paper board
Sight size
3 3/4" height X 5 1/2" width
Frame
Custom framed with three mats, non-glare glass and a black wood molding with reddish highlights
Frame size
16 1/2" height X 18" width
Signed
"Pop Chalee" at viewer's lower right
Date of creation
Prior to March 1983
Condition
Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed.
Provenance
Obtained in 1983 from the Buck Saunders Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, a gallery representing Pop's work for many years.JJ
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About The Small Blue Horse

Once again, Pop's amazing brushwork defines the horse's tail and mane with precision and patience.

Marked Down from $2,500 to $1,800

About Pop Chalee

An East Indian mother and a father from Taos Pueblo represented a mixed beginning for Pop Chalee. Merina Lujan Hopkins grew up at Taos Pueblo, then attended and graduated from the Santa Fe Indian School.

Pop Chalee began her professional painting in 1936 after serving as the only adult attending the Santa Fe Indian School to study easel painting with Dorothy Dunn. Best known for her depiction of horses and forest scenes. Pop Chalee used watercolor with meticulous detail.

She was the first Native American painter included in Who's Who.

Prior to her death she was living in New Mexico. Margaret Cesa gathered information for approximately four years and published a book on Pop Chalee titled The World of Flower Blue Pop Chalee: An Artistic Biography.

[I was introduced to Pop at Leo and Buck Saunders' Gallery in Scottsdale and immediately commented "You look just like your paintings!". as she was pristinely dressed with not a hair out of place. It was a great privilege to meet this talented woman. Later. I was blessed with the purchase of a small painting by Pop. - Corinne]

Every collection of Native American painting ought to include an example of this woman's very special work. Pop Chalee's work is included in the exhibit "Beautiful Resistance: Works on Paper from the Heard Museum Collection" May 22 - December. 2005.

Other Works By Pop Chalee:
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