Harry Fonseca
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Harry Fonseca was an artist born in Sacramento, California in 1946. He died 28 December 2006 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of a brain tumor. Fonseca was of Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, and Portuguese heritage.
Fonseca's earliest pieces drew from his Maidu heritage. He was influenced by basketry designs, dance regalia, and by his participation as a traditional dancer. Further, the creation myth of his people, as recounted by his uncle, Henry Azbill, became the source of a major 1977 work, Creation Story.
His wildly popular Coyote series placed its canine trickster protagonist in decidedly nontraditonal American Indian situations, always with witty enchantment---like Harry himself in his tux regalia, delighting a Soho exhibit opening like it was a little urban powwow.
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