Emiliano Abeyta | |
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Sa Pa | |
Born | 1911 |
Died | 1981 (aged 69–70) |
Nationality | American, Ohkay Owingeh |
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]