Ceremonial Water Carriers
Gilbert Atencio
- Savvy Price $185.00
- Gallery Price $300.00
- Title
- Ceremonial Water Carriers
- Artist
- Gilbert Atencio
- Medium
- Black lithograph on light grey hand-made paper
- Edition
- 11/ 25
- Paper size
- 25" height X 20" width
- Signed
- "Gilbert Atencio" in graphite at viewer's lower right
- Date of creation
- Circa 1980
- Condition
- Good, not excellent due to creasing in margins (upper and lower).
- Provenance
- Kr Ha
- Atelier
- Southwest Graphics, their embossed chop at viewer's lower left
- About The Ceremonial Water Carriers
Printed at Southwest Graphics lithographic atelier once located in Scottsdale, Arizona during the early 1980's, Atencio depicts three (3) American Indian women balancing pottery water jars atop their heads while dressed in pueblo garments, wearing their traditional jewelry.
- About Gilbert Atencio
(1930-1995) Gilbert Atencio was born in Colorado and raised at San Ildefonso pueblo in New Mexico, before going to high school in Santa Fe. He is a nephew of the renowned potter, Maria Martinez. In addition to being a painter, Atencio also applied his abilities to being a medical and technical illustrator.
His work is in major collections including at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the School of American Research in Santa Fe, the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Institute of American Indian Art and the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Gilbert Atencio is cited in Southwest Indian Painting by Tanner, American Indian Painting by Dunn, Pueblo Indian Painting by Brody, Biographical Directory of American Indian Painters by Lester, When the Rainbow Touches Down by Seymour, American Indian Painters A Biographical Directory by Snodgrass and the Biographical Directory of American Indian Painters by Lester.
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