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Harry Fonseca (Harry Eugene Fonseca) was born on 5 January, 1946 in Sacramento, California, is a Native American painter. Discover Harry Fonseca's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

Popular As Harry Eugene Fonseca
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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 5 January, 1946
Birthday 5 January
Birthplace Sacramento, California
Date of death 28 December, 2006
Died Place Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1946

Harry Eugene Fonseca (1946 – 2006) was a Nisenan Native American artist, and illustrator.

He was an enrolled citizen of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

Harry Eugene Fonseca was born on January 5, 1946, in Sacramento, California.

He was Nisenan and of Hawaiian and Portuguese heritage.

He and his family belongs to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

Fonseca first studied at Sacramento City College.

and then continued his study of art at California State University, Sacramento, with Frank LaPena, but later quit the program to pursue his own vision of art.

“Fonseca’s work represents the best of Native and European traditions, contemporary art, and his personal vision.

Harry’s mix of influences is the best of America in that he consumed so much of culture and life, and he gave it back.”

Fonseca's earliest pieces drew from his Nisenan heritage.

He was influenced by basketry designs, dance regalia, and by his participation as a traditional dancer.

1977

Further, the creation of his people, as recounted by his uncle, Henry Azbill, became the source of a major 1977 work, Creation Story, which he would paint in many versions during his career.

1979

In 1979, Fonseca began his popular Coyote series, Coyote, an Indigenous California trickster, appears in contemporary settings.

As an example, his Coyote in the Mission depicts Coyote dressed in a leather jacket with many zippers and green hightop sneakers standing against a graffiti-covered brick wall in San Francisco's Mission District.

Another image has Rousseauesque Coyote sitting in a Paris cafe.

1981

In 1981 Fonseca illustrated a book, Legends of the Yosemite Miwok, compiled by Frank LaPena (Nomtipom Wintu) and Craig Bates.

Fonseca was particularly taken by petroglyphs in the Coso Range near Owens Lake, California, and petroglyphs from throughout the West and Southwest United States.

1989

A series of these paintings were exhibited in the Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, California) in 1989 as well as the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021

The artist confronted the dark history of the California Gold Rush, where his work takes a political tone.

These are small abstract paintings in which gold is the predominant color, along with traces of red which represent the blood of Native Americans shed by the gold seekers.

Each painting also incorporates minerals from California's gold country.

Fonseca wrote that they are "a direct reference to the physical, emotional and spiritual genocide of the native people of California".

1990

One series painted in the 1990s was of images of Saint Francis, who appears as negative space in each painting.

About the same time, he did a series of paintings of the Icarus story.

1991

In 1991 he reinterpreted the Maidu creation story using imagery influenced by petroglyphs.

He began a series of paintings he called Stone Poems, that draw heavily from these petroglyphs.

1992

Many of these were exhibited in the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento (1992) and the Oakland Museum as part of a larger Gold Rush exhibition in 1998.

He did many drawings and prints of Coyote and Rose, a female counterpart to Coyote, often depicted in a floral print dress.

These became a mainstay of Santa Fe event posters.

Fonseca later introduced the Coyote Koshare in several of his works.

“Coyote Koshare with Watermelons” situates the Coyote in a more traditional environment, at home at the pueblo and participating in sacred ceremonies.

Fonseca’s representation of the rainbow in each painting symbolizes the importance of the rainbow’s image for Pueblo tribes.

The greenery which hangs around the necks of the Coyote Koshares shows their commitment to maintaining the balance with the natural world, an indication of their spiritual significance.

Harry did several other series of paintings.

2002

Another series from 2002 was inspired by the striped patterns on early Navajo blankets.

2003

In 2003 he started to paint a series of abstract paintings of flowering tree branches, which he called collectively the Four Seasons, a small group of which were exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.

2019

Fonseca's work was part of Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting (2019–21), a survey at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center.

The Autry Museum of the American West exhibited Coyote Leaves the Res: The Art of Harry Fonseca from May 19, 2019 to January 5, 2020.

The museum's press release on the exhibition, included his social positionality as an artist stating, "as a gay man and a person of mixed heritage, Fonseca used his art as a vehicle for self-discovery."

Fonseca's artwork was showcased in numerous exhibitions at prestigious institutions, including ethnographic, historical, and natural history museums.