Harry Fonseca

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Late 20th Early 21st Century

Top of poster has a stylized grayscale image of a coyote in human clothing falling upside down. At the top is "Peace" and at the left is "You / Are / The / World". At the bottom left is a stereo...

1979-1992

15 drawings on tan paper in ink and colored pencil from a series on ceremonial dances of the Chico Maidu by Harry Fonseca. In 1979 Harry Fonseca, working with Craig Bates, started on a series of...

1989

Harry Fonseca painted a series of "Stone Poems" inspired by the indigneous rock art of California, Utah, and the Southwest. This example, called "Migration #1" appears to depict the Sun King, a...

1991

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1991-1992

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1991-1992

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1991-1992

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1991-1992

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1990

This is a painting from the "Stone Poem" series inspired by the indigenous rock art of California, Utah, and the Southwest. In this painting, a large, central humanoid figure is accompanied by...

1987

This is a painting from Fonseca's "Stone Poem" series inspired by the rock art or petroglyphs of California, Utah, and the rest of the Southwest. These paintings were mostly done in the late...

1992

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1992

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1991

Painting outdoors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Harry Fonseca devoted much of his work during the summer in the late 80s and 90s to the California Gold Rush. The result was "The Discovery of...

1987

Harry Fonseca was of Nisenan/Maidu/ Hawaiian/Portuguese heritage. This particular painting is from his "Stone Poems" series of large canvases. These works are influenced by petroglyphs from...

08/25/97

Description: Painting, Series 8.5.97 #10 Abstract painting with different tones of gold, with reddish-brown splashes over it. Matted showing raw edges of painting, in white with new gold frame....

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