Tom Po Qui (Water of Antelope Lake/Indian Girl/Ramoncita)

We continue our special month with the Denver Art Museum collection. Enjoy! :)

After growing up in Cozad, Nebraska, and Denver, Colorado, and studying in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, Robert Henri (1865–1929) moved to New York City where he became a painter and arts educator. In 1913, he traveled to southern California where he met the Tewa artist Tom Po Qui who was visiting from P’ohwhóge Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo). With quick, gestural brushstrokes, Henri depicts her colorful clothing, forthright gaze, and glints of light on her silver squash blossom necklace. The Tewa are a linguistic group of Pueblo Native Americans whose homelands are on and near the Rio Grande in New Mexico north of Santa Fe.

P.S. Let's turn the tables and see how Native American artists expressed themselves and their cultural heritage in art.

P.P.S. As we have only two months of 2022 left, please check our amazing, beautiful, artsy calendars for 2023! Full of art and made of the best materials they will enrich your upcoming year.  :)