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Robert Henri, Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1916, oil on canvas, 67 × 40 i…
Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo
Robert Henri, Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1916, oil on canvas, 67 × 40 i…
Robert Henri, Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1916, oil on canvas, 67 × 40 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Robert Henri, 1916 (353.23P). Photo by Addison Dot.

Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo

Artist (American, 1865 - 1929)
Date1916
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 67 × 40 in. (170.2 × 101.6 cm)
Frame: 72 x 47 1/4 x 3 in. (182.9 x 120 x 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Robert Henri, 1916
Object number353.23P
DescriptionSeated Native American male wearing traditional clothing with blanket over his lap playing a drum.
eMuseum Notes

American painter Robert Henri contributed significantly to the development and early vision of the New Mexico Museum of Art, particularly in the promotion of contemporary artists and the anti-academic, open-door policy.

Like many artists before him, Henri’s New Mexican paintings prominently feature the state’s Indigenous peoples. Henri’s paintings embrace the humanity of his subjects by depicting them as named individuals, instead of the ethnographic types common among other painters of the time. Dieguito Roybal was a leader and participant in traditional ceremonies at San Ildefonso Pueblo, and Henri depicts Roybal in the midst of drumming, using a fluid, expressive stroke intended to communicate the artist’s empathetic engagement with his sitter.

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Terms
  • men
  • drums (membranophones)
  • portraits
  • drumsticks
  • Native American
  • blankets (coverings)
  • costume
  • musicians