Crescencio Martínez
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- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Art
- Subcategories: Painting, Painters, Drawing, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American Indian History
Article abstract: Crescencio Martínez is considered by many to be the father of watercolor painting among Puebloan Indians, leading to the Southwestern School of Indian painting.
Crescencio Martínez began drawing sometime before 1910, using crayons he picked up while working as a janitor at the San Ildefonso Day School. Edgar Hewett, excavating near San Ildefonso in about 1915, hired Crescencio as a laborer and found him drawing on the ends of cardboard boxes. Hewett gave him drawing paper and watercolors, and bought many of his drawings. In 1916, Crescencio...
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