Tony Abeyta, Gift, ca. 2005
Tony Abeyta
Diné (Navajo), b. 1965
Gift, ca. 2005
oil on canvas
signed lower right: Tony Abeyta
20 1/8 x 16 in. (51.1 x 40.6 cm.), frame: 21 1/2 x 17 3/8 x 2 5/8 in. (54.6 x 44.1 x 6.7 cm.)
The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2016
Private Collection, Massachusetts
Tony Abeyta is a contemporary painter known for mixed-media works and Southwestern landscapes that weave ancestral Navajo iconography into a visual language informed by American Modernism. He earned an A.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is also a graduate of New York University, later receiving an honorary doctorate from IAIA. Abeyta received the 2012 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and has been recognized as a “Native Treasure” by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
Condition
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Tony Abeyta
Diné (Navajo), b. 1965
Gift, ca. 2005
oil on canvas
signed lower right: Tony Abeyta
20 1/8 x 16 in. (51.1 x 40.6 cm.), frame: 21 1/2 x 17 3/8 x 2 5/8 in. (54.6 x 44.1 x 6.7 cm.)
The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2016
Private Collection, Massachusetts
Tony Abeyta is a contemporary painter known for mixed-media works and Southwestern landscapes that weave ancestral Navajo iconography into a visual language informed by American Modernism. He earned an A.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is also a graduate of New York University, later receiving an honorary doctorate from IAIA. Abeyta received the 2012 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and has been recognized as a “Native Treasure” by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
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.
