Co-founded by Harrison Begay, the Navajo artist born in 1917, A. Hamilton Mencher and Charles Barrows, Tewa Enterprises published original silkscreen prints. Its purpose was to promote art produced by Native American artists.
According to Mr. Mencher “All of Tewa’s runs consisted of 2000 impressions of high quality paper using the best quality Nazda silkscreen paints.”
Often on the back is printed “Copyright, Tewa Enterprises, Santa Fe, New Mexico”. A different screen was utilized to produce each of the colors, generally printed one per day.
Many prints were produced during the 1950’s. Gerald Nailor is an artist whose work was translated into screenprints, Harrison Begay and Allan Houser are two others.
The above information was gained from Art of the Print.com owned by Greg & Connie Peters
Corinne Cain of www.SavvyCollector.com
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Most of the screenprints by Tewa were produced in editions of 2000. They originally sold for 50 cents to $1.50. I am not familiar with that artist.
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Many of these prints are sold on Ebay. Condition must be perfect, not good, if they are to sell more higher amounts of money.
Corinne
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What are these limited edition silk screens worth now, if in very good or excellent condition?
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Sorry Cindi, I am just paying attention to comments. I watch Ebay results, to gauge market reception trends, not so much exact prices.
There have been times were the more complex screenprints in perfect condition have sold in excess of $100 and other times barely $25.
Gerald Nailor and Woody Crumbo examples tend to sell for more than those by Harrison Begay, as GN and WC prints tend to be more complicated, involving more screens used in the printing process.