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Helen Hardin (May 28, 1943 – June 9, 1984) (also known as ''Tsa-sah-wee-eh'', which means "Little Standing Spruce") was an American painter.〔Pamela Michaelis. ("Helen Hardin 1943–1984." ) ''The Collector's Guide''. (retrieved 16 Feb 2010)〕 Her parents were Santa Clara Pueblo artist, Pablita Velarde and a Caucasian former police officer and Chief of Public Safety, Herbert Hardin. She started making and selling paintings, participated in University of Arizona's Southwest Indian Art Project and was featured in ''Seventeen'' magazine, all before she was 18 years of age. Creating art was a means of spiritual expression that developed from her Roman Catholic upbringing and Native American heritage. She created contemporary works of art with geometric patterns based upon Native American symbols and motifs, like corn, kachinas, and chiefs. In 1976 she was featured in the PBS American Indian artists series. ==Personal life== Helen Hardin was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the daughter of Santa Clara Pueblo artist, Pablita Velarde and Herbert Hardin, a former police officer and Chief of Public Safety, US State Department. Her first language was Tewa.〔〔Mary Stokrocki, ("Helen Hardin )," ''School Arts,'' April 1995. Accessed via Questia Online Library, which is a subscription required source.〕 She was named ''Tsa-Sah-Wee-Eh'' and a naming ceremony at the Santa Clara Pueblo about a month after she was born.〔Phoebe Farris, ed., (''Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas.'' ) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. pp. 23-24. Accessed via Questia, which is a subscription required source.〕 Hardin was raised by her artistic mother and her family at the Santa Clara Pueblo and she went to school and lived among the Anglo world for much of her life. She saw herself as "Anglo socially and Indian in () art."〔Gretchen M. Bataille and Laurie Lisa, eds., (''Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary'' ), 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2001, 124. Accessed via Questia, which is a subscription required source.〕 At six years of age Hardin won first prize for a drawing.〔 Her works were sold when she was nine with her mother's at Gallup Ceremonial events. Although she was influenced by her mother's techniques and works, Hardin wanted to create her own style.〔〔 Her relationship with her mother became increasingly difficult as Hardin became more artistic and when her parents divorced in 1957〔 or 1959.〔Liz Sonneborn. ''(A to Z of American Indian Women )''. Infobase Publishing; 1 January 2007. ISBN 978-1-4381-0788-2. pp. 83-84.〕 She studied drafting〔 at Albuquerque's St. Pius X High School,〔 a parochial Catholic school. In the summer of 1960 Hardin attended the University of Arizona's Southwest Indian Art Project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.〔〔 Also while in high school she was featured in ''Seventeen'' magazine.〔 In 1961 and 1962 she attended the University of New Mexico, where she studied architecture and art,〔〔 although her mother wanted her to study business; Her mother said she didn't like her paintings.〔 She considered her work non-traditional, yet was influenced by native pictographs, petroglyphs and pottery designs and the works of her teacher Joe Herrera, who was a Cubist〔 from the Cochiti Pueblo.〔 Hardin relationship with her high school boyfriend, Pat Terrazas,〔 continued after graduation and they had a daughter, Margarete Bagshaw, in 1964.〔 Hardin had to sneak opportunities to paint because both her boyfriend and her mother didn't want her to paint.〔 She went to Bogotá, Columbia in 1968 as a respite from the abusive relationship with Terrazas and an unhealthy relationship with her mother.〔〔 She said of that time, "I awoke to the fact that I was twenty-four years old, I was locked into an unhappy (), and I was not painting. I didn't know who I was or what I was. In search of personal freedom, I took Margarete... and left the country."〔 In 1973 she married Cradoc Bagshaw.〔 Her relationship with her mother improved in the 1980s, and Velarde began to be supportive of her work. Hardin was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1981〔 and died in New Mexico in 1984.〔〔(Helen Hardin Paintings.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Hardin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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