Emiliano Abeyta

Emiliano Abeyta (1911–1981), also called Sa Pa, was a twentieth-century Pueblo-American painter from the Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo) tribe.[1] From 1933 to 1934, he was an artist in the Public Works of Art Project as part of the New Deal.[2][3] Already an established artist by that time, he worked for the program out of the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[4] Later, in the 1950s, his work was part of the University of Oklahoma European Tours, for which the university's College of Fine Arts curated a collection of paintings for the U.S. Information Service to exhibit across Europe.[5] Abeyta's work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian[1] and the University of Oklahoma.[6]

Emiliano Abeyta
Sa Pa
Born1911 (1911)
Died1981 (aged 69–70)
NationalityAmerican, Ohkay Owingeh
Abeyta's 1933 watercolor Two Antelope Dancers, now in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian

References
  1. "Two Antelope Dancers | National Museum of the American Indian". americanindian.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  2. Procurement Division (1936). Bulletin, Treasury Department Art Projects.
  3. McLerran, Jennifer (2009). A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2766-3.
  4. "New Mexico Tells New Mexico History | History: The Great Depression and World War II". online.nmartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  5. King, Jeanne Snodgrass (1968). American Indian painters; a biographical directory. Smithsonian Libraries. New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
  6. Studio International. Studio Trust. 1956.


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