Artist

Richard Martinez

born 1904-died 1987
Also known as
  • Opa Mu Nu
  • Ricardo Martinez
Active in
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
  • San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
Biography

Richard Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo) began to paint in 1920 and attended the Santa Fe Indian School where he took art classes with Dorothy Dunn. In 1936, he joined other artists who had attended the school in painting a series of murals for the school's student dining room.

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

Works by this artist (1 item)

Richard Martinez, Mounted Warrior, ca. 1920-1930, watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corbin-Henderson Collection, Gift of Alice H. Rossin, 1979.144.88
Mounted Warrior
Dateca. 1920-1930
watercolor and pencil on paper
Not on view