Animal Dance
Animal Dance
Artist
Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal)
(San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1898 - 1955)
Dateca. 1930
MediumGouache on paper
Dimensionsimage: 15 1/4 × 27 in. (38.7 × 68.6 cm)
Framed: 26 3/4 in. × 38 1/4 in. × 1 in.
Framed: 26 3/4 in. × 38 1/4 in. × 1 in.
ClassificationsWatercolor
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.43
Signedl.r.: Awatsireh
Accession number
2020.43
On View
On viewLabel TextSan Ildefonso Pueblo artist Awa Tsireh was an accomplished painter, metalsmith, and muralist. He achieved great success in his career, participating in notable national, and even international, exhibitions. In much of his work, including this painting, Tsireh omitted any background setting so that the dancers float on the page. The decorative details of his work reference both Pueblo pottery motifs and the popular Art Deco style of the time.
