1949 Ku-Pe-Ru Theodore Suina Original Gouache Painting Native American Antelope

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BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL GOUACHE PAINTING SIGNED AND DATED BY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST THEODORE SUINA (1918- ) DIMENSIONS About 11 1/4" x … Read more BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL GOUACHE PAINTING SIGNED AND DATED BY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST THEODORE SUINA (1918- ) DIMENSIONS About 11 1/4" x 9 1/4" sight size. 19 3/4" x 16 3/4" overall. DESCRIPTION Wonderful original gouache painting by Theodore Suina, signed and dated lower right with his Native American Keresan name, "Ku-Pe-Ru '49," meaning ""Snow Beads." Shows a gray and white deer standing next to a desert plant with a rain cloud in the background. Framed, glazed and matted. Pen inscription verso reads "To: Charlotte Goodhue / Feb. 11, 1959 / from F. E. F"

Theodore Suina (Ku-Pe-Ru, Snow Beads) was born in1918 at the Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. He graduated from the Santa Fe Indian School in 1942; the Hill and Canyon School of the Arts in 1950; and with a B. S. degree from St. Joseph's College in 1953. In addition to his career as an artist, he was also elected Governor of Cochiti Pueblo. Suina first started paint seriously while he was recovering from a broken neck, the result of a boyhood accident. In 1939 he was commissioned to paint a mural at Maisel's Indian Trading Post in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He continued to receive recognition and awards for his work: first prize, All-American Indian Days, Sheridan, Wyoming, 1968; Denver Art Museum; Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonials, Gallup, New Mexico; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; New Mexico State Fair, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Philbrook Art Center Annual Indian Art Exhibition, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Scottsdale National Indian Art Exhibition, Scottsdale, Arizona; and Terry National Art Exhibition, Miami, Florida, 1952. Suina's paintings are in many public collections across the United States, including: Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado; Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Northern Arizona, Katherine Harvey Collection, Flagstaff, Arizona; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico; University of Oklahoma Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa., Oklahoma; United Pueblo Agency, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Woolaroc Museum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; and Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

CONDITION Overall excellent. No defects noted. Colors bright and unfaded (all visible in the images) Matting is loosely mounted in the frame. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF MID-CENTURY NATIVE AMERICAN ART. See less