Rafael Medina - Large Original Painting – Zia Pueblo

Description

Rafael Medina (1929-1998)
Indian Name: Teeyacheena
Painting, 1971
Origin: Zia Pueblo– Gallup, New Mexico
Medium: gouache
Size:
18 3/4” x 26 1/2” image;
26-1/4” x 35 1/2” framed
Price:
5.00
Rafael Medina(Teeyacheena)
was born on September 10, 1929, at
Zia Pueblo
, New Mexico and lived in Gallup, New Mexico. He was educated at Zia Day School, Zia Pueblo; Albuquerque Indian School and Santa Fe Indian School, where he studied under Velino Shije Herrera, Jose Rey Toledo and Geronima Montoya.
According to toMedina's son, Marcellus Medina, his father's painting style was mostly the flat traditional style first encouraged by Dorothy Dunn, the influential teacher at the Santa Fe Indian School. Marcellus described other influences on his father's work in a 1995 interview:
"And again, a lot of[painting styles] are brought here and there from other pueblos. And a lot of influence came from the Apaches and the Navajo. The Quincy Tahoma style of the horses, the Navajos riding on horses. My father took some of that style and used it in his own paintings, too. You borrow a little bit here and you borrow a little there, then you put your own ideas, your own talents and whatever personal experience you had as a little boy growing up to a young man, and as an artist, you take all that and you put it into the painting. That's how my father taught himself..."
(Wyckoff, p. 180)
Medina received a solo exhibition at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson. Among the awards he earned during his career are: six awards from the annual American Indian Art Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; an award from the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market, Phoenix, Arizona(1969); an award from the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonials, Gallup, New Mexico(1970); an award from the Philbrook Art Center Annual Indian Art Exhibition,Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966) and Grand Awards from the same exhibition in 1970 and1972; and two first prize awards from annual Scottsdale National Indian ArtExhibition, Scottsdale, Arizona (1967 and 1971).
Medina's work is included in numerous public collections, including Roswell Museum and ArtCenter, Roswell, New Mexico; Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona,Tucson, Arizona; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.; Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona;Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NewMexico; and Philbrook Museum of Tulsa, Oklahoma.