Josefa Roybal
{{Short description|Native American artist}}
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Josefa Roybal (dates unknown) sometimes known as Josephine or Josepha, was a 20th-century Native American artist, a San Ildefonso Pueblo painter and potter. According to one source, she "most likely was born between 1900 and 1905 and most likely died before 1960."{{Cite web|title=Josephine Roybal Pottery {{!}} San Ildefonso Pueblo|url=http://www.mariajulianpottery.com/san-ildefonso/josephine-roybal/|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.mariajulianpottery.com}}
Life
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Roybal was born in northern New Mexico into a family of Native American artists, notably including the artist Awa Tsireh (also known as Alfonso Roybal).{{Cite web|title=Josefa Roybal {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/josefa-roybal-4172|access-date=2021-06-05|website=americanart.si.edu|language=en-US}} According to Adobe Gallery (which cites the work of Gregory Schaaf), Josefa was the daughter of Alfonsita Martinez and Juan Esteban Roybal; sister of Awa Tsireh (1898–1955), Santana Roybal Martinez (1909–2002), Lupita Roybal, Manuelita Johnson Roybal and painter Raphael Roybal.{{Cite web|title=Santana Martinez - Artist - Adobe Gallery, Santa Fe|url=https://www.adobegallery.com/artist/Santana_Martinez_1909_2002134621213|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.adobegallery.com}} Her father was the nephew of potter Cresencio Martinez. Her nephew, José Disiderio (J.D.) Roybal, also became a noted painter.{{Cite web|title=Alfonso Roybal Paintings - Adobe Gallery, Santa Fe|url=https://www.adobegallery.com/artist/Alfonso_Roybal_1898_195516835189|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.adobegallery.com}} Her "maternal grandfather, was a full-blooded Diné of the Navajo Nation, who had been adopted as an infant into the pueblo."
Josefa was "one of the few female Pueblo painters in the first years of the movement" but she did not receive the attention lavished on her brother because the artistic community at that time was dominated by male artists. (Since then, more attention has been paid to the female artists of San Ildefonso Pueblo.)
She sometimes signed her work with an Anglicized version of her name, Josephine, as a convenience for non-Navajo speakers. Her work can be found using both names.
One of her paintings, Comanche Dancers, ({{circa|1930}}–1939), watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, resides in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
References
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External links
- Photo of [https://americanart.si.edu/artist/josefa-roybal-4172 Comanche Dancers].
- [http://www.mariajulianpottery.com/san-ildefonso/josephine-roybal/ Photo of work crafted by Josefa]
- Schaaf, Gregory. [https://www.adobegallery.com/books/Pueblo_Indian_Pottery_750_Artist_Biographies_C_1800_Present_With_Value_Price_Guide_Featuring_over_20_Years_of_Auction_Records_American_Indian_Art_Series_1_2514 Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies, C. 1800-present: with Value/price Guide Featuring Over 20 Years of Auction Records]. Vol. 2. Ciac Press, 2000.
- Andrew Connors Pueblo Indian Watercolors: Learning by Looking, A Study Guide (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1993).
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Category:People from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
Category:Painters from New Mexico
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:Native American painters
Category:Native American women artists
Category:20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas
Category:20th-century Native American artists
Category:20th-century American women painters
Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Year of death unknown