Harry Fonseca

Harry Eugene Fonseca (1946 - 2006) [1][2] was an American Nisenan artist, and painter. He is a registered citizen of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians . 

## Agụmakwụkwọ
Harry Eugene Fonseca was born on January 5, 1946 in Sacramento, California.  He is Nisenan with Hawaiian and Portuguese heritage.  [1] He and his family belong to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. 

Fonseca first studied at Sacramento City College.  [1] and continued to study art at California State University, Sacramento, with Frank LaPena, [1] and later left the program to pursue his artistic vision.

## Ọrụ nka
“Ọrụ Fonseca na-anọchite anya ọdịnala ndị obodo na ndị Europe kacha mma, nka nke oge a, na ọhụụ nke onwe ya. Ngwakọta mmetụta Harry bụ ihe kacha mma America n'ihi na ọ riri ọtụtụ omenala na ndụ, wee nyeghachi ya. " 

Iberibe mbụ nke Fonseca sitere na ihe nketa Nisenan ya.  Nhazi nkata, usoro ịgba egwu, na nsonye ya dị ka onye ịgba egwu ọdịnala metụtara ya. Ọzọkwa, okike nke ndị ya, dị ka nwanne nna ya, Henry Azbill si kọọ, ghọrọ isi iyi nke isi ọrụ 1977, *Creation Story*, nke ọ ga-ese n'ọtụtụ nsụgharị n'oge ọrụ ya.

In 1979, Fonseca started the popular Coyote series, Coyote, a native California trickster, appeared in the modern setting.  For example, his Coyote in the Mission shows Coyote wearing a leather jacket with many zippers and green hightop sneakers standing against a graffiti covered brick wall in San Francisco's Mission District.  Another scene features a Rousseauesque Coyote sitting in a Paris cafe.

In 1981 Fonseca presented a book, Legends of the Yosemite Miwok, compiled by Frank LaPena (Nomtipom Wintu) and Craig Bates.

The petroglyphs are taken by Fonseca especially in the Coso Range near Owens Lake, California, and petroglyphs from throughout the West and Southwest United States.  In 1991 he reinterpreted Maidu's creation story using images of related petroglyphs.  He began a series of paintings he called Stone Poems, which drew heavily from these petroglyphs.  These series of paintings were exhibited at the Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, California) in 1989 and the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021  

The artist faces the dark history of the California Gold Rush, where his work takes on a political tone.  These are small rare paintings in which gold is the predominant color, with red markings representing the blood of Native Americans spilled by gold seekers.  Each painting also includes minerals from California's gold country.  Fonseca wrote that they are "a direct reference to the physical, emotional and spiritual genocide of the people of California".  Many of these items were exhibited at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento (1992) and the Oakland Museum as part of the large Gold Rush exhibit in 1998.

O mere ọtụtụ eserese na mbipụta nke Coyote na Rose, nwanyị ibe ya na Coyote, nke a na-egosipụtakarị na uwe ebipụta ifuru. Ihe ndị a ghọrọ isi akwụkwọ mmado ihe omume Santa Fe.

Fonseca mechara webata Coyote Koshare n'ọtụtụ ọrụ ya. "Coyote Koshare with Watermelons" dị na Coyote na gburugburu ọdịnala karịa, n'ụlọ na pueblo na isonye na emume dị nsọ. Ihe nnọchianya Fonseca nke egwurugwu na eserese ọ bụla na-egosi mkpa ọ dị n'ihe oyiyi egwurugwu maka ebo Pueblo. Akwụkwọ ndụ akwụkwọ ndụ na-ekokwasị n'olu nke Coyote Koshares na-egosi ntinye aka ha n'ịkwado nguzozi na ụwa eke, ihe na-egosi mkpa ime mmụọ ha. 

Harry mere ọtụtụ usoro eserese ndị ọzọ. Otu usoro e sere na 1990s bụ ihe onyonyo nke Saint Francis, onye pụtara dị ka oghere na-adịghị mma na eserese ọ bụla. N'ihe dị ka n'otu oge ahụ, o mere ọtụtụ ihe osise nke akụkọ Icarus. Usoro ọzọ sitere na 2002 sitere n'ike mmụọ nsọ site n'ụdị nke nwere akara na blanket Navajo mbụ. N'afọ 2003, ọ malitere ịse ihe osise na-adịghị ahụkebe nke alaka osisi okooko osisi, nke ọ kpọrọ mkpokọta *oge anọ*, otu obere ìgwè nke e gosipụtara na Smithsonian's National Museum of American Indian na New York City. &#x5B; ** &#x5D;

Ọrụ Fonseca bụ akụkụ nke *Stretching Canvas: Afọ iri asatọ nke eserese ala* (2019–21), nyocha na National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center. 

The Autry Museum of the American West presents Coyote Leaves the Res: Art of Harry Fonseca from May 19, 2019 to January 5, 2020. The museum's release of the exhibit, including his social status as a  - artist says, "as a gay man of mixed heritage, Fonseca used his art as a vehicle for self-discovery" 

E gosipụtara ihe osise Fonseca n'ọtụtụ ihe ngosi n'ụlọ ọrụ ama ama, gụnyere ebe ngosi nka agbụrụ, akụkọ ihe mere eme, na akụkọ ihe mere eme nke okike. E gosipụtara ọrụ ya na Smithsonian's National Museum of American Indian, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (ugbu a Museum of Contemporary Native Arts) na Santa Fe, Wheelwright Museum na Santa Fe, na Oakland Museum na California.  Fonseca gosikwara usoro ya "Nchọpụta nke ọla edo na mkpụrụ obi" na 1999 Venice Biennale 

Agbanyeghị, n'agbanyeghị ihe ndị ọ rụzuru, Fonseca chere ihe ịma aka ihu dị ka onye na-ese ihe bi na Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ụfọdụ ndị nkatọ, ọkachasị John Baldessari, kwuru na ebe Fonseca nọ na Santa Fe gbochiri nnabata ya dị ka onye na-ese ihe, na-ewere ya dị ka ahịa niche.  Otú ọ dị, Fonseca nọgidere na-arara onwe ya nye n'ọhụụ nkà ya ma nọgide na-emepụta ọrụ ndị na-akpali echiche na mmetụta 

## Nchịkọta
Albuquerque Museum of Art (Albuquerque, New Mexico), California State Parks Central Valley Regional Indian Museum (Sacramento, California), Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California), Denver Art Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians & Western Art (Indianapolis)  ., Indiana), Ethnological Museum of Berlin (Berlin), Heard Museum (Phoenix, Arizona), Honolulu Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire), Linden Museum (Stuttgart, Germany),  and Monterey Fine Arts Museum (Monterey, California), New Mexico Museum of Fine Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California), Oguni Museum (Oguni, Japan), Pequot Museum (Mashantucket, Connecticut)  , the University Art Museum (Berkeley, California), the Washington State Arts Museum (Olympia, Washington), and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe, New Mexico) are among the public collections of Harry Fonseca's work.

## Ọnwụ
Fonseca was diagnosed with brain cancer and hospitalized at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in August 2006. He died there on December 28, 2006..

## Ntụaka

## Njikọ mpụga

* Weebụsaịtị gọọmentị nwere akụkọ ndụ, akụkọ ihe ngosi na onyonyo onyonyo
* Nchọpụta ọla edo na eserese California
* Harry Fonseca's "Koshares with Cotton Candy"