Charles Lovato

1937-1987

Charles Lovato printmaker, ceramist, sculptor, poet and jeweler learned art by helping his grandmother, pottery Monica Silva, decorate her pottery. He was honored posthumously with a show of his jewelry at the Wheelright Museum in Santa Fe. This artist was known for incorporating traditional Pueblo images like the sun, mountains and the plants of the Rio Grande Valley. Lovato was innovator in jewelry design combining gold and turquoise with olive shell, white clamshell, sugilite, coral and lapis lazuli.

 

 

 

"Yes I have taken from the earth its promise, tasted its fruit and eaten its life giving corn and I repay her by not abusing her so that the fruit and the corn will be waiting when my children are born.”  

Acrylic on Masonite

27" x 22 3/4"

 

Suggested Price $1,200.00

Reduced Price $900.00

 

 

 

Life's Intricacies

Lithograph

22" x 30" 

 

$4,500.00

$1,500.00

 

 

 

Origins

Lithograph

22" x 30" 

 

$2,000.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Song of the Earth

Lithograph

30" x 22"

 

$1,600.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunrise

Lithograph

30" x 18" 

 

$450.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hands of Man

Lithograph

22" x 30" 

 

$1,000.00

 

 

 

 

 

I Have Given You Reasons

Lithograph

22" x 30"

 

$1000.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of Beauty and Woman

Lithograph

30" x 22"

 

$900.00