Native American Girl

Hello,

I have been doing some research on the signature on this piece of art but I have gotten nowhere. Does anyone know anything about the artist? How much it is worth? The signature looks like a Jaimie Alvarando or something similar and it was made in '67.

 

We need a picture of the signature please and is this a print?

 

Why does that seem to you to be NA ??
I don't see it !

 

The person that I received this piece from was very much into Native American artwork. I just have always been told that it was a NA girl and I guess I have grown to accept that. Frankly, I don't really see it either.

 

I have attached the photo of the signature and it is not a print.

 

Looks like "Jaime Alvarado."

Debora

 

The only artist Jamie Alvarado I could find online was a Jamie Alvarado, "director of MACLA's Center for Latino Arts in San Jose." There is only a mention of him on the following webpage:

"The beauty of Anzaldúa's reinterpretation of the pre-Columbian concept of nepantla is its broad applicability, not only on the personal level, but to the new mestizaje, or hybrid state, that is today's American multicultural society. Jaime Alvarado, director of MACLA's Center for Latino Arts in San Jose, and Lori Wood, director of Villa Montalvo's Artist Residency Program, recognized this quality when they set out to discover whether their two very different arts organizations could collaborate on a truly equal basis.

"It's a hot topic right now," Alvarado says. "Artistic collaboration between traditional, mainstream, big-budget institutions and alternative organizations based within communities of color ... typically serves the program needs of the larger organization and is disconnected from the day-to-day life of the alternatives' constituencies. ... Lori and I decided we had to try and see if two radically different communities can work together in a respectful fashion."

4th & 5th paragraph down:
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.02.95/art-9544.html

I could find no art work by him. If he is the artist, this might be considered Latino art rather than Native American???

--- Susan

 

Suspect he's a bit too young to have painted this work in 1967.

Debora

 

If you look CAREFULLY, it also looks to say '68

 

Aquitaine is correct. The artist accidentally wrote a "7" and corrected it to an "8".