Pop Chalee (Merina Lujan)
Taos Pueblo, (1908-1993), 'My Miniature Horses,' watercolor on paper framed under glass, signed lower right: Pop-Chalee, titled on the original backing board.
sight: height 12in, width 18 1/4in
Footnotes:
See Cesa, Margaret, The World of Flower Blue – Pop Chalee: An Artistic Biography, 1997, Red Chane Books, Santa Fe, p.90, wherein the artist is quoted from a 1940 article 'Artists and Writers of New Mexico' in the Santa Fe New Mexican: '... I endeavor to capture through two dimensional forms the grace and beauty of the things I love, things that I have known until they become part of my subconscious. And I find that these elements of nature, whether animate or inanimate, lend themselves to purity of design and form that does not need the embellishment of contemporary civilization to give them a sense of life.'

In apparently good condition overall. Some rippling to the paper. Sunburning/yellowish discoloration throughout. With a portion of the original backing board verso with the artist's inscription and title.