Modern by Tradition

Rushing W

ISBN 10: 0890132917 / ISBN 13: 9780890132913

Published by Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999

About this Item

1999. First Edition. Paperback. This showcase of Native American paintings features works by students of Dorothy Dunn, who established the country's first Indian art school. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: AC; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 254 x 16. Weight in Grams: 964. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780890132913

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern by Tradition
• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890132917
• ISBN 13: 9780890132913
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

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 the Authors

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).

W. Jackson Rushing III is the Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art at the University of Oklahoma and a distinguished author.