Red Robin - Allan J. McIntyre Fine Art

Allan J. McIntyre Fine Art - Red Robin

Allan J. McIntyre Fine Art

TUCSON

ARIZONA


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Artist: Red Robin (Born: 1918 - ?)

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Pueblo Village circa 1940s, Watercolor.

Edition: Unique. Signed, Red Robin, lower left.

Dimensions of paper: 7 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (193 x 272 mm). Not framed.

Reference: Snodgrass 1968:156; Lester 1995:466.

Very good condition overall. There is some slight discoloration to the paper just to the right of the mesa edge. Painted full sheet on light wove watercolor paper - highlighting and outlining with pencil.

Red Robin is something of an enigma. His work is not extremely common, but common enough to be listed in reference books. There is some conflict as to his true tribal affiliation. Most references list him as affiliated with Zuni, while others have questioned if he was, or is, Native American at all. Snodgrass (1968:156) commented:

The artist is known to have resided in Taos and Santa Fe, N.M.,
Denver, Colo., and New York City, his last known residence and
where he was engaged as a textile designer. Although claiming
relationship with many tribes, his actual tribal origin is unknown.

A current (2006) Smithsonian webpage on Native American arts has this to say about Red Robin (obviously borrowed, in part, from Snodgrass):

Although little is known about Red Robin (unknown affiliation, probably Zuni),
at least for a time he lived, in both Santa Fe and Taos. In the 1930s he was
employed by the Colorado Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.
He later moved to New York and became a textile designer. Unlike other Pueblo
paintings, Landscape with Two Figures on Horseback [SAAM, 1979.144.91]
represents the artist's interest in a looser approach to creating images. Perhaps
Red Robin was responding to the work of Anglo artists in Santa Fe and Taos who
used watercolor in an impressionistic style. To indicate landscape and figures, he
uses broad strokes of watercolor without the sharply defined outlines that
characterize most Pueblo watercolors.

Lester (1995) provided no new information. Time will tell.

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Specializing in fine prints and art on paper by graphic artists and printmakers
of the American desert Southwest, primarily Arizona and New Mexico, created before 1950.