Isabel Montoya

Isabel M. Montoya Atencio (1899–1996) was a San Ildefonso Pueblo painter and potter.

Biography

Isabel M. Montoya was in 1899 and was the daughter of Nicolassa Peña Montoya and Juan Cruz Montoya. Her cousin was potter Maria Martinez. Her siblings included Rayita Montoya, Santana Montoya, and Alfredo Montoya (the first husband of Tonita Roybal).

Montoya married Benjamin Atencio circa 1925 and had five children, all of whom were painters or potters: Tony, Gilbert Benjamin, Pat, Helen Gutierrez and Angelita Sanchez.

She studied at the Santa Fe Indian School, and is known for her pencil and crayon sketches, and her role in the development of pottery in San Ildefonso.

See also

List of Native American artists

References

External links

Isabel Montoya artwork and photographs at Marie & Julian Pottery

20th-century American painters

20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas

Native American painters

Pueblo artists

Painters from New Mexico

Native American potters

American potters

Native American women artists

1899 births

1996 deaths

20th-century American women artists

20th-century Native American artists

20th-century Native American women

American women painters