Artist
Thomas Vigil
born Tesuque Pueblo ca. 1889-died 1960
- Also known as
- Pan Yo Pin
- Tomás Vigil
- Summer Mountain
- Pen You Pin
- Pu Yo Pin
- Pinayo Pin
- Born
- Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
- Biography
Although the pueblo of Tesuque is located only a few miles from the pueblo of San Ildefonso, Tesuque experienced little of the artistic renaissance of San Ildefonso. Painter Thomas Vigil began painting before 1920 and was one of the first painters from Tesuque Pueblo.
Andrew Connors Pueblo Indian Watercolors: Learning by Looking, A Study Guide (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1993).
Exhibitions
October 11, 2019–March 13, 2020
Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists examines representations of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans on the Great Plains in the 1830s and in the twentieth century.