About the Artist

(1937-1987 Santo Domingo) Charles Lovato was a painter, ceramist, sculptor, poet and jeweler who learned art by helping his grandmother, potter Monica Silva, decorate her pottery.

This artist was known for incorporating traditional Pueblo images like the sun, mountains and the plants of the Rio Grande Valley. Lovato was an innovator in jewelry design combining gold and turquoise with olive shell, white clamshell, sugilite, coral and lapis lazuli.