Silver Honors Stone: The Work of Julian Lovato

The first solo show at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian featuring Julian Lovato (Santo Domingo, 1925-2018, explores his career and his influence of Native American jewelry. Benefiting from the generosity of private lenders, and institutional loans from the Heard Museum, the exhibition features 80 works. Lovato had a long and prolific career, creating works of composed beauty known for their raised dimensional design. Lovato’s career maps the ways in which the Native American jewelry field flexed and changed over the course of the twentieth century. In his teens, Lovato worked for Maisels in Albuquerque. After serving in Japan he worked at the Thunderbird Shop in Santa Fe, moving to Packards in the mid-1960s. By the 1970s, he had set up his own studio in Kewa Pueblo, working closely with his wife Marie O. Lovato.

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