Louise Crow Yen-see-do painting ca 1915 Oil on canvas New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe New Mexico |
Louise Crow Yen-see-do painting ca 1915 Oil on canvas New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe New Mexico |
Louise (Boyac) Crow Yen-see-do painting ca 1915 Oil on canvas St. George Art Museum, St. George, Utah |
Louise Crow Eagle Dance at San Ildefonso ca 1919 Oil on canvas Whatcom Museum, Seattle, Washington |
Crow became a fellow at The School of American Research in 1920 as a result of her fieldwork at San Ildefonso Pueblo and her work with Dr. Edward L. Hewitt, director of the Museum of New Mexico who also worked with renowned potters Maria and Julian Martinez.
In 1938, Crow was married briefly to writer Roy Keech in Santa Fe. After her divorce, she used the name Boyac, her maternal grandmother's name however, not professionally. Louise Crow died on July 26, 1968 in San Mateo, California.
Crow's exhibitions include the Oakland Museum, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Salon d' Automne, Paris; Salons of America, New York; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; and the Ainslee Galleries, New York, Artists of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle. She had solo shows at the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; the Museum of History and Industry and the Pioneer Hall, Seattle, and the Governor's Mansion, Olympia, Washington.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________Sources
Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, Patricia Trenton, ed., University of California Press, 1995, p. 155, 159, 162-163, 169, 174.
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West, Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1998, p. 61-62.
Women Artists of Santa Fe, Michael R. Grauer, Essay printed in Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, November 2004, http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa92.htm.
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