Emiliano Abeyta

Emiliano Abeyta (1911–1981), also called Sa Pa, was a twentieth-century Pueblo-American painter from the Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo) tribe.[1] From 1933 to 1934, he was an artist in the Public Works of Art Project as part of the New Deal.[2][3] Already an established artist by that time, he worked for the program out of the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[4] Later, in the 1950s, his work was part of the University of Oklahoma European Tours, for which the university's College of Fine Arts curated a collection of paintings for the U.S. Information Service to exhibit across Europe.[5] Abeyta's work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian[1] and the University of Oklahoma.[6]

Emiliano Abeyta
Sa Pa
Born1911 (1911)
Died1981 (aged 69–70)
NationalityAmerican, Ohkay Owingeh

References
  1. "Two Antelope Dancers | National Museum of the American Indian". americanindian.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  2. Procurement Division (1936). Bulletin, Treasury Department Art Projects.
  3. McLerran, Jennifer (2009). A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2766-3.
  4. "New Mexico Tells New Mexico History | History: The Great Depression and World War II". online.nmartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  5. King, Jeanne Snodgrass (1968). American Indian painters; a biographical directory. Smithsonian Libraries. New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
  6. Studio International. Studio Trust. 1956.


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