Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style - Softcover

Bernstein, Bruce; W. Jackson, Rushing; Rushing, W. Jackson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890132917 ISBN 13: 9780890132913

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999

Synopsis

This showcase of Native American paintings features works by students of Dorothy Dunn, Kansas-born schoolteacher and curator, who, though an outsider, absorbed Navajo and Pueblo ways and established the country's first Indian art school. Reproduced here are more than ninety paintings by prominent artists such as Pablita Velarde, Joe H. Herrera, Allan Houser, and Pop Chalee.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style presents the form, style, and pictorial intention behind the finest artists to emerge from the Studio, the renowned art program developed at the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s by Dorothy Dunn. Featuring provocative essays by noted art historian W. Jackson Rushing and anthropologist Bruce Bernstein and 120 beautifully reproduced works by artists such as Joe Herrera, Pablita Velarde, Oscar Howe, and Gerald Nailor, Modern by Tradition takes the first exclusive look at the Studio Style of modern Indian Painting since Dunn's landmark American Indian Painting (1968). Winner, RMBPA, Jacket/Cover Design, 1996. Runner-up, RMBPA, Trade Book Illustrated, 1996

About the Author:

Bruce Bernstein is the former executive director of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, which sponsors Santa Fe Indian Market. He is the former assistant director for research and collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the former director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Museum of New Mexico). He is the author of Santa Fe Indian Market: A History of Native Arts and the Marketplace (Museum of New Mexico Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0890132917
• ISBN 13: 9780890132913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176