About Rufina Vigil
Rufina Vigil was a painter.
Women Gathering Guaco, 1935, figurative painting by Rufina Vigil.Rufina Vigil, also called Sah Wa, was an Puebloan-American painter from the Tesuque Pueblo tribe, part of the Eight Northern Pueblos. Active in the 1930s, she studied under Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. At one time she worked as a drafter in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Vigil was a genre painter, who painted daily and ceremonial life at Tesuque Pueblo. Dorothy Dunn wrote of Vigil: "She had great patience with fine detail and was adept at composition." and the Museum of New Mexico.
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