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Charles F. Lovato
Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo), 1937-1987
Person TypeIndividual
Yanktonai Dakota (Sioux), 1915-1983
BiographyLived/Active: New Mexico / Mexico The only major painter to come from Kewa Pueblo (Santo Domingo), New Mexico, Charles Lovato became a painter of abstract subjects, muralist, illustrator, poet and craftsman. His paintings were unique and were unrelated to Pueblo traditions. As a jeweler, Lovato did heishe neckaces, for which the Santo Domingo Pueblo is well known. After 1967 many of his paintings were accompanied by one of his poems. He explained that sometimes the poem came first and sometimes were written in response to the painting.