Artist

Josefa Roybal

Biography

One of the few female Pueblo painters in the first years of the movement, Josefa Roybal (of San Ildefonso Pueblo), the sister of Awa Tsireh (also called Alfonso Roybal), received little attention in an artistic community dominated by male artists. Like many Pueblo women, Josefa Roybal frequently used the Anglicized version of her name, Josephine, which would have been more familiar to non-Spanish speakers in the region. Currently there are many important Pueblo painters who are women.

Andrew Connors Pueblo Indian Watercolors: Learning by Looking, A Study Guide (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1993).

Works by this artist (5 items)

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John Lonergan, Circus Workers, gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1980.111.1
Circus Workers
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gouache on paper
Not on view
John Lonergan, Girl with Flowers, gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1980.111.3
Girl with Flowers
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gouache on paper
Not on view
John Lonergan, Fisherman with Net, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1980.111.5
Fisherman with Net
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screenprint on paper
Not on view
John Lonergan, Mining Town, gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1980.111.2
Mining Town
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gouache on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

The Protagonist of an Endless Story by Angel Rodríguez-Díaz
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
July 28, 2023–January 15, 2024
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ideas about the American West, both in popular culture and in commonly accepted historical narratives, are often based on a past that never was, and fail to take into account important events that actually occurred.