**Originally Listed At $400**

Patrick Swazo Hinds (Tesugue Pueblo, 1924-1974). "The Buffalo Dancer" stone lithograph on paper, 1972. Patrick Swazo Hinds' stone lithograph entitled "The Buffalo Dancer" is part of his "Pueblo Dancers" suite. Each composition in the suite was drawn and hand printed at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1972. (There is a Tamarind Institute blindstamp on the back of this piece.) Here Swazo Hinds presents a Buffalo Dancer wearing a traditional horned, fur-covered headdress with feathers; a skirt decorated with a stylized fish motif and trimmed with metal beads; bells around his waist; armbands, and fancy boots. Swazo Hinds depicted the dancer in motion, raising one foot above the ground while holding a rattle in his right hand and a bow in his left, against an orange orb which is in turn surrounded by a mesmerizing pattern of countless swirling motifs. Just magnificent! Size of stone lithograph: 30.125" L x 22.25" W (76.5 cm x 56.5 cm)

Artist's bio: "Patrick Swazo Hinds was a renowned artist and painter whose work combined Native motifs with a modern style that became an expression of his heritage and culture. As a child, he was adopted and moved to California where he pursued his education in art. He attended Hill and Canyon School of Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland; Mexico City College; and the Art Institute of Chicago. He also served in the U.S. Marines during the Korean War, and later worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time artist. Over his lifetime, Swazo Hinds's works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and are in the permanent collections of the Institute of American Indian Arts and the National Museum of the American Indian.

As an important person in the California art scene, Swazo Hinds departed from the traditional style and painted highly abstracted pieces that emphasized his connection to his Pueblo culture, which he visited every summer after his adoption. He stated, 'I have worked hard to learn to paint and now I have chosen to paint the Indian . . . and his religion and his culture as I understand it. I can paint an Indian as ugly as I want, because there is pain, there is sorrow, there is suffering. I can paint him beautiful, because that is there, too.'" (Autry Museum of the American West website)

This edition consisted of 70 numbered impressions on buff Arches paper, plus two Tamarind Impressions, and seven artist's proofs. In addition, a few trial proofs exist and are recorded at Tamarind. Note: this example has the Tamarind blindstamp on the lower right.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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This stone lithograph has a Tamarind Institute blindstamp on the verso (lower right corner). The impression is very strong with bold color and vivid imagery. It is set within a brown matte, hinged at the top. A wonderful piece.