Emiliano Abeyta

Emiliano Abeyta (1911–1981), also called Sa Pa, was a twentieth-century Pueblo-American painter from the Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo) tribe.^[1] From 1933 to 1934, he was an artist in the Public Works of Art Project as part of the New Deal.^[2][3] Already an established artist by that time, he worked for the program out of the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.^[4] Later, in the 1950s, his work was part of the University of Oklahoma European Tours, for which the university's College of Fine Arts curated a collection of paintings for the U.S. Information Service to exhibit across Europe.^[5] Abeyta's work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian^[1] and the University of Oklahoma.^[6]