Deer Hunters
Velino Shije Herrera (Ma-Pe-Wi), Zia Pueblo / American, 1902 - 1973
Zia Pueblo (Tsia)
Southwest
about 1930
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
Sight: 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.78
Geography
Place Made: Zia Pueblo, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Native American
Watercolor
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: MA-PE-WI
Exhibition History
A Self Portrait of America, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 18-September 16, 1984.
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Taylor Hall, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 1941.
Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Carpenter Hall Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-July 11, 1976.
Native American Studio School Watercolors, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October--December, 2010.
The Arts of Native America: Studio Painting, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 3, 1979.
The Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, sponsored by the College Art Association, New York, no. 166, toured the United States and Europe, 1931-1933.
Publication History
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1941, no. 73.
Catalogue: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 578 Madison Avenue, New York, Endorsed and Circulated through the College Art Association, 1931, no. 166.
Provenance
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), by 1931; given to present collection, 1935.
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