The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Three Antelope
1920s
Location: not on view
Description
In this painting, Ma Pe Wi, a self-taught artist from Zia Pueblo, depicts three delicately rendered antelope who bound over stepped forms decorated with cloud motifs. Above is a sky filled with a rainbow, rain clouds, and the sun. In the early 1900s, Ma Pe Wi, also known as Velino Shije Herrera, was key to a major development in the Indigenous arts of the Southwest as Native artists took control of interpreting and representing their own cultures after centuries of oppression and marginalization. Working in nontraditional media, especially watercolor, these artists drew their subject matters from the nonsacred parts of Indigenous ceremonies as well as traditional ceramic and mural imagery.- Purchased from The Spanish and Indian Trading Co., Santa Fe, N.M.
- Native North American Textiles and Works on Paper (Gallery 231 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 9, 2022-December 3, 2023).CMA 1982: North American Indian Watercolors, January 12-April 11. 1982, no catalogue
- {{cite web|title=Three Antelope|url=false|author=Ma Pe Wi (Velino Shije Herrera)|year=1920s|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1928.313