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Helen [Tsa-Sah-Wee-Eh] Hardin, Untitled
Helen [Tsa-Sah-Wee-Eh] Hardin
Santa Clara, 1943 - 1984
Untitled
oil on board
signed lower right: TsA-sAh-wEE-Eh [artist's cipher]
11 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (30.2 x 60.6 cm.), frame: 21 1/2 x 33 5/8 x 1 in. (54.6 x 85.4 x 2.5 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Helen Hardin was among the most distinctive Native American painters of the twentieth century, celebrated for translating Pueblo symbolism into a bold, geometric visual language entirely her own. Born in 1943 to renowned Santa Clara painter Pablita Velarde and Anglo civil servant Herbert Hardin, she began selling her own work while still a teenager, quickly stepping out from her mother's shadow with a style rooted in abstraction rather than the narrative realism favored by earlier generations of Pueblo artists.
Working in acrylics, inks, and later copper-plate etchings, Hardin developed a distinctive technique using layered paint, ink washes, airbrush, and fine stippling to build complex, luminous compositions centered on kachina figures, corn, and other Pueblo motifs rendered in crisp, interlocking geometry. Her work appeared on the cover of New Mexico Magazine in 1970, and in 1975 she received the Avery Memorial Prize at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Later in her career she turned to etching, producing prints that extended her intricate imagery into a new medium.
Condition
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Helen [Tsa-Sah-Wee-Eh] Hardin
Santa Clara, 1943 - 1984
Untitled
oil on board
signed lower right: TsA-sAh-wEE-Eh [artist's cipher]
11 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (30.2 x 60.6 cm.), frame: 21 1/2 x 33 5/8 x 1 in. (54.6 x 85.4 x 2.5 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Helen Hardin was among the most distinctive Native American painters of the twentieth century, celebrated for translating Pueblo symbolism into a bold, geometric visual language entirely her own. Born in 1943 to renowned Santa Clara painter Pablita Velarde and Anglo civil servant Herbert Hardin, she began selling her own work while still a teenager, quickly stepping out from her mother's shadow with a style rooted in abstraction rather than the narrative realism favored by earlier generations of Pueblo artists.
Working in acrylics, inks, and later copper-plate etchings, Hardin developed a distinctive technique using layered paint, ink washes, airbrush, and fine stippling to build complex, luminous compositions centered on kachina figures, corn, and other Pueblo motifs rendered in crisp, interlocking geometry. Her work appeared on the cover of New Mexico Magazine in 1970, and in 1975 she received the Avery Memorial Prize at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Later in her career she turned to etching, producing prints that extended her intricate imagery into a new medium.
Condition
A condition report for this lot is available upon request (please include the lot number in your request) and is provided by Santa Fe Art Auction as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers.
