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Alice Asmar Hopi Indian Painting

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 USD
Alice Asmar Hopi Indian Painting
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15 7/8" long by 13 3/4" framed. Alice Asmar (Born 1929) is active/lives in California, Michigan. Alice Asmar is known for Indian genre and figure, mural, animal. A painter of Southwest Indian figure and genre, Alice Asmar has the name of "Kha-ye-povi" or Blooming Flower from the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico because of her ever-increasing number of works depicting Native American people. She works in a variety of media including casein on rice paper, engraving, and painting on nambe metal. Asmar is a long-time resident of Burbank, California and grew up in Portland, Oregon. She studied at Lewis and Clark College, graduating summa cum laude in 1949, and then earned an MFA degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1951. She studied in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts. From 1947 to 1958, she was an assistant professor at Lewis and Clark College and then in 1961, moved to California. Her first visit to New Mexico and Arizona was in 1966, and she has returned regularly from that time. Allard Auction Collection Inv: ZLF 9795