Awa Tsireh: Pueblo Painter and Metalsmith

by Diana F Pardue, Sandfield Norman L., Norman L. Sandfield

Alfonso Roybal, better known as Awa Tsireh (Cat Tail Bird in the Tewa language), was born in the small pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico, in 1898. He became arguably the finest Native American painter of the first half of the twentieth century. To date, the authors have documented more than four hundred of Awa Tsireh's paintings in numerous private collections and more than thirty museums. Awa Tsireh's metalwork in silver, copper, and aluminum is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934351910
• ISBN13: 9780934351911
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Heard Museum
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.2"