Pablita Velarde

Pablita Velarde born Tse Tsan was an American painter.

Velarde was born on Santa Clara Pueblo near Espaola, New Mexico. After the death of her mother when Pablita was about five years old, she and two of her sisters were sent to St Catherines Indian School in Santa Fe. At the age of fourteen, she was accepted to Dorothy Dunns Santa Fe Studio Art School at the Santa Fe Indian School. There, she become an accomplished painter in the Dunn style, known as flat painting.

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