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Message:: [QUOTE="verybrad, post: 9615209, member: 37"]Good find yesterday at the Goodwill for $5.00.  Native American painting by Red Robin.  (1912-1991)  Looks to be guoache on paper.  20" x 24".  Was an interesting guy.... From his biography on Find a Grave: "Born Onecimo Quintana on June 8, 1909, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, the sixth child of Antonio and Fedelia Gallegos Quintana. When he was between the ages of 4 and 10, his father passed away. He left home at a very early age. Identifying as a member of the Zuni tribe, he was known as Red Robin. About 1930, he arrived in Denver, Colorado where he met Frederic H. Douglas, curator of Indian art at The Denver Art Museum. Hired under the WPA, (Colorado Federal Art Project of Works Progress Administration), he worked for Douglas for about 10 years at The Denver Art Museum. During this time, Robin also worked as an artist’s model and studied voice, painting, business, English, and mathematics. He won many awards for his art. In 1932 his permanent sand painting “Father Sky and Mother Earth”, illustrated the DAM leaflet on Indian Sand Painting. The original work is now owned by The Portland Art Museum. He exhibited a work in the 1936 Exhibition of WPA Artists at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. In 1936 and 1937, his permanent sand painting, “Hasjelti Dailis” was part of the New Horizons of American Art Exhibit of MoMA in New York under the Federal Art Project of WPA. In 1940, Red Robin moved to NYC. He was invited to join the prestigious Professional Artists’ Club of New York. In 1941, he was appointed to the staff of The Museum of Natural History, where he served the Department of Education on Indian Life and Arts. He lectured before a number of institutions and was heard frequently on the radio. Twice he had exclusive one man shows at the Macbeth Gallery, the first show devoted to the work of an American Indian. Red Robin’s canvases are represented in the collections of many museums and have achieved distinction in nationwide competitions. In the spring of 1942, he was inducted into the Engineers’ Corps of the Army. As a Private in the 4th Infantry Division, Robin was in the Intelligence Unit, drawing sector maps and maps for combat plans. On D Day, he was in the 4th Wave landing on Utah Beach. Two weeks after the invasion, he was shot at Saint-Lo. Critically wounded, he spent about two years in the hospital recovering. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor, a Purple Heart, and various other combat awards." Red Robin returned to NYC from 1949-1959. He was a commercial artist for “Stars and Stripes” and was a designer of textiles in the fashion industry. In 1951, he won an award in the Juried Exhibition of Native American Painting at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Red Robin was married in Harris, Texas in 1960, and was the father of two sons. He worked in Houston at the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1978, he retired to Velarde, New Mexico where he was associated with the art communities in both Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico. Red Robin’s mediums of art were water color, oil, pencil, gouache, and permanent sand paintings. His subject matter was scenes from Native American life and ceremonials in the Southwest. He has two paintings in the Smithsonian and is in collections of many art museums and private collectors." <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3879652/red-robin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3879652/red-robin" rel="nofollow">Red Robin (1912-1991) - Find a Grave Memorial</a> [ATTACH=full]468962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]468963[/ATTACH] Signed faintly, lower left.  Enhanced photo:[ATTACH=full]468964[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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