Julian Lovato - Santo Domingo Turquoise and Silver RIng, c.1960s, Size 8.75

Description

Julian Lovato - Santo Domingo Turquoise and Silver RIng, c.1960s, Size 8.75
18g, face measures 1.25" x 1.125"
Acquired from a private collection in West Virginia.
Please reference item J12087.
Julian Lovato is a traditionally trained silversmith who became an early practitioner of modern Native design while working at Frank Patania’s Thunderbird Shop.  Born at Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo), Lovato is known for his heavy and high quality silver work and for top quality turquoise and coral.
As one of the outstanding silversmiths of the Thunderbird Shop, he was greatly influenced by Patania’s modernist aesthetic.  Lovato simplified and updated traditional patterns as well a creating fresh, new designs, and became adept at creating a three dimensional look that he called “raised, dimensional jewelry design.”
Medicine Man Gallery has been in the antique Native American art business since 1992.
We have one of the largest inventories of antique Native American art for sale in the country, offering Navajo rugs and blankets, American Pueblo pottery, Indian baskets, Hopi kachinas, old pawn jewelry, contemporary Native American jewelry, and Native American beadwork, as well as ethnographic art, Western Americana, art of the west and Native American art.
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