Scrapbook, ca. 1930s-1940s
Item — Box: 6
Pop Chalee Scrapbook Page Level Information
Pop Chalee Scrapbook (18 folios)
Front Cover: Original painting of blue deer by Pop Chalee Inside front cover: Blank
Laid in: 1) Undated news clipping, “Artist ‘Amazes’ Gallery Owner; 2) 1947 new clipping, “Pop Chalee is Wed in Navajo Ceremony”; 3) Herald Express, May 16, 1950 news clipping, “Indian Reservations Perfect Examples of the Welfare State”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Indians Pour into Gallup; 5) Undated news clipping, “Indian Dancers at ‘U’ Attract Enthusiastic S.L. Audience; 6) Undated news clipping, “Indian Rites Highlight Spring in New Mexico, 7) Undated news photo with caption, “Inter-tribal Indian ceremonial…” 8) The Arizona Republic, February 22, 1970 news clipping, “Darling of the resort owners, pet of the art collectors back in town”
f. 1r: 1) March 17, 1972 news clipping, “It happened”; 2) Strainer September 26, 1946 news clipping, “AB’s Famed Indian Murals and their Creator… Pop Chalee”
f. 1v: 1) Scottsdale, Arizona, November 2, 1971 news clipping: “Ranch to Revive Indian Crafts Center”; 2) Typed correspondence to Pop Chalee from Lola Harman, May 13, 1965 with 9 prints of paintings by Fred Harman.
Laid in: 1) The Phoenix Gazette, July 18, 1970 news article, “Famous Indian Painters in Exhibition”
f. 2r: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 31, 1939 news clipping, “Untaught Indian Girl Becomes Prize Painter”
f. 2v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Blue Flower”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Indian Girls Assist at Lecture Tonight; Pop Chalee to Speak”; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “A purple dress …”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Art in the Ancient City”; 5) June 19, 1939, “Large Gathering Hears Talk on Indian Art at Arsuna”; 6) July 17, 1941 news clipping, “Pop Chalee Exhibits Work at Museum”; 7) January 23, 1941, “Painter Gains Fame for Art of Indian Life”
Laid in: 1) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee Develops her Own Indian Art”
f. 3r: 1) The Desert News, January 1, 1941 news clipping, “Noted Taos Indian Artist Finds Herself Unknown in her Native State of Utah”; 2) September 1, 1940 news clipping, “Irreverent Caricatures Show Village Personages”; 3) November 18, 1940 news clippings, “Picturesque”; 4) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Feg Murray, cartoonist …” ; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “-ed by Pop, we might not recognize it.”; 6) The Evanston Review, November 14, 1940, “Taos Indian Artist Exhibits Work at Deering Library”; 7) November 22, 1940 news clipping, “Exhibit of Indian Art Opens this Afternoon”; 8) November 21, 1940 news clipping, “Giving Tea for Artist”, 9) Undated news clipping, “Says Easterners Know Indians Best”; 10) Undated newspaper advertisement, “Fred Wilson Presents his Second Annual Indian Arts and Crafts Exhibit”
f. 3v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Indian Artists Show in April; 2) The Taoseno, March 27, 1941 news clipping, “The Artists of Taos Pueblo”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Mrs. Cassidy and Madame Maruchess Return from Tour; 4) Undated news clipping, “The Ferris Wheel”, 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee will show 15 watercolors …” ; 6) Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 17, 1941 news clipping, “ Pop Chalee Exhibits Work at Museum”
f. 4r: The New York Times, September 1, 1940 news photos, “Red Men’s Festival”
f. 4v: 1) Reno Evening Gazette, undated, untitled news article, “Seen in a local store amid a display of articles…” ; 2) Undated, untitled news clipping, “People who have been ransacking the shops for Christmas cards …” ; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee may go into the movies …” ; 4) Santa Fe New Mexico, December 13, 1940, news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 5) November 18, 1940 news clipping, “Picturesque”; 6) December 1937 news clipping, “ Indian Artists Open Exhibit At Torreon Today”; 7) July 21, 1940 news clipping, “‘Monitor’ Features Art of N.M. Indians Reproduced in Color; “ 8) Undated news article, “Indian Artist of Fame, Former Utahn”; 9) Undated news clipping, “National Art Week Exhibits Here Unworthy, Critic Finds”
f. 5r: The Christian Science Monitor Weekly, undated news clipping, “Indians as Seen in Their Paintings”
f. 5v: 1) Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 13, 1940, news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Indian Artists, Strikes New Note in Chicago Social Circles; 2) Undated news photo of Pop Chalee; 3) Chicago Herald-American, undated news clipping, “Mrs. J. Ogden Armour Entertains Indian Artist Pop Chalee”; 4) 1940 news clipping, “National Art Week Exhibits Here Unworthy, Critic Finds”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Acee Blue Eagle Oklahoma Artist Visits Pop Chalee”
f. 6r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Sallie Green’s Adept Portraiture Seen in Mid-Month Museum Exhibit”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “An Indian princess visited the first grade …” ; 4) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Three well known Indian artists … “ ; 5) Undated news clipping, “Entertained by Women’s Board; Visit the Galleries”; 6) Undated, untitled news clipping, “A lecture on Indian art …”; 7) April 21, 1934 news clipping, “Indian Play Listed at Whitney Hall Monday”; 8) Undated news clipping, “Artists Perpetuate Heritage”.
f. 6v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Local Indian Artist Makes Big Success in Phoenix”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Luminaries, Indian Fires, and Chants as Shusters Entertain”; 3) Santa Fe New Mexican(?), February 15 (1940?) news clipping, “Scanning— New Books”; 4) The New Mexico Daily Examiner, March 24, 1940 news clipping, “Autographed Book for Chipmunk Patrol”; 5) The New Mexico Examiner, March 13, 1940 news clipping, “Paintings by Pop Chalee in Los Angeles Paper”; 6) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Roy A. Keech’s new book of poems …”; 7) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Keech received honors this week…”; 8) March 7, 1946 news clipping, “Eastern Press Compares Tony Lujan to Indian Head on Buffalo Nickel”; 9) New Mexico Daily Examiner, October 27, 1939 news clipping, “Roy Keech’s Book ‘Pagans Praying’ to be Out Soon”.
f. 7r: 1) June 16, 1940 news clipping, “Cuarto Centennial Exhibit Covers Fifty Years of Art”; 2) Phoenix, Arizona, March 4, 1946 news clipping, “Dinner Party Will Honor Indian Artist”; 3) Santa Fe New Mexican, January 29, 1940 news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 4) New Mexico Examiner, February 11, 1940, “‘Pagans Praying,’ Roy Keech’s Indian Dance Poems, Illustrated by Pop Chalee, Just Published”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Pen and Paint Box”.
f. 7v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Big Mural Painted by Pop Chalee Hung at Marshall Field Exhibit”; 2) Undated news clipping, “In the Colony”; 3) December 6 (no year) news clipping, “Noted Indian Artist Discusses Art of Her People at Club Meet”; 4) Los Angeles, undated news clipping, “Indian Art Stressed in Exhibits”; 5) Santa Fe New Mexico, October 29, 1940 news clipping, “British Boy Will Send War Days at the U.S. Indian School”; 6) November 2, 1938 news clipping, “Pop Chalee to be in ‘Who’s Who’”; 7) August 20, 1940 news clipping, “Santa Feans Return from Ceremonial”.
f. 8r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Stokowski to Record Indian Music of Taos”; 2) February 15, 1939 news clipping, “Names of New Mexico Artists Who Will Exhibit at New York World’s Fair Are Announced”; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “A straight Indian painting show …”; 4) December 14, 1938 news clipping, “Santa Fe Gallery Open for Christmas”; 5) Santa Fe New Mexican, January 6, 1939 news clipping, “Disney Would Love Pop Chalee’s Trees, Animals, Says Critic”; 6) New Mexico Examiner, December 13 (no year) news clipping, “Honored”; 7) Albuquerque Tribune, April 1, 1939 news clipping, “Indian Artists Paint Murals Here; Work on Front of Store Building”; Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee to Be in ‘Who’s Who’”.
f. 8v: 1) Rochester Evening News, November 29, 1938 news clipping, “Indian Art Lauded”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Bishop’s Lodge Entertainments”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Indian Dinner Served Taos Style”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Paintings by Indians”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Spring Show at Sena Plaza Gallery in Mood of Season”; 6) Undated news clipping, “‘Keep Santa Fe’s Charm’ Lecturer Urges at Arsuna”.
f. 9r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Large Gathering Hears Talk on Indian Art at Arsuna”; 2) The Santa Fe New Mexican, March 27, 1939 news clipping, “Exhibits by Santa Fe Indian School Students Current in Los Angeles and San Francisco Receive Praise of Critics”; 3) October 23, 1989 news clipping, Allan Houser, Noted Indian Artist, Weds; 4) November 12, 1939 news clipping, “Pop Chalee Leaving For Stay in Phoenix”.
f. 9v: 1) Cleveland, Ohio, undated news clipping, “Fights for Rights of Tribe”; 2) November 6, 1938, “The Adventures of ‘Pop Chalee’s’ Chipmunk”
Laid in: 1) The Taos News, October 19, 2006 news article, “Up From Obscurity: Taos Pueblo’s Famous Painter, Pop Chalee”; 2) The New Mexican, July 22, 1979 news article, “Navajo Medicine Woman Busy Healing and Blessing”; 3) The Arizona Republic, August 12, 1976 news clipping, “Record Company for Indian Music Only”; 4) Undated news clipping, “The Subject is Roses”; 5) Undated clipped news photo, caption, “Pop Chalee (Blue Flower) is a Taos Indian artist”; 6) Pasadena Star News, January 17, 1951, news photo, caption, “Inspect New Santa Fe Train…” ; 7) The Arizona Republic, May 7, 1975 news clipping, “Mexican Folk Art Previewed”; 8) Photograph, unidentified subjects, dated October 1974; 9) Photographic reproduction, Pop Chalee, undated; 10) Photographic reproduction, unknown female subject standing in front of car, undated; 11) Photographic reproduction, Jack Hopkins, Sr.(?) at Taos Pueblo(?), undated; 12) Photographic reproduction, unknown young male subjects, possibly at Taos Pueblo, undated.
f. 10r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Letters to the Editor”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Helen Cunningham Has Sunday Art Tour”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Acee Blue Eagle Oklahoma Artist Visits Pop Chalee”; 4) Undated news clipping, “World’s Fair Not All in Fun; Will Benefit Indians”; 5) March 9, 1934 news clipping, “Salt Lake-Born Indian Girl Devoting Life to Fight for Full Legal Rights for Tribe”.
f. 10v: 1) The Desert News, June 6, 1935 news clipping, “Primary Association Will Present Travelogue Program Saturday Night”; 2) Undated news clipping (damaged with title and majority of article lacking), “‘Monitor’ Features …”; 3) Undated news clipping, Club to Hear Talk by Indian Princess”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Indian Princess Visits First Grade Children”; 5) August 1934 news clipping, “Are the Redskins Musical? Ask Lujan Popsicles— She Knows. Anyway, Redmen Sing, She Says”; 6) Tribune, March 9, 1934 news clipping, “Secret Ceremonies of Tribe Described”.
f. 11r: 1) The Santa Fe New Mexican, July, 17, 1939 news clipping, “Royalty Plays Large Part in the Highly Successful World’s Fair”; 2) The Santa Fe New Mexican, September 24, 1939, “Indian Artists Take Honors at Gallup”; 3) The New Mexico Examiner, July 13, 1939 news clipping, “World’s Fair Stage Sets Being Made”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Work of Indian Artists”; 5) The New Mexico Examiner, July 11, 1939, news clipping, “Party at Pop Chalee’s Features Indian Dances”; 6) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee Hostess at Party for Palestine Artists”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Indian Princess Gives Lecture on Art Work”.
f. 11v: 1) November 28, 1940 news clipping, “ National Art Week Exhibits Here Unworthy, Critic Finds”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Magnificent Show By Indian Dancers”; 3) The Santa Fe New Mexican(?), January 1, 1941 news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 4) The Amarillo Daily News, undated news clipping, “‘Pagans Praying’ by Roy A. Keech Captures Spirit and Atmosphere of Pueblo Indians”; 5) The Santa Fe New Mexican(?), undated news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 6) 1941 news clipping, “Says Indians Are Encouraged”; 7) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Indian artist of Santa Fe…” 8) December 26, 1939 news clipping, “Pop Chalee Heads for Radio Career?”; 9) Undated news clipping, “People You Know”.
f. 12r: 1) Undated news photo, caption, “Pop Chalee (Merina Lujan Hopkins). Prominent Taos artist displays her paintings in the Exhibit Hall”; 2) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Indian artist of Santa Fe…”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Pop-Chalee Leaving for Stay in Phoenix”; 4) Los Angeles Examiner, January 2, 1939 news clipping, “Foremost Indian Artist Brings Dozen Works Here”; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Jack Hopkins has returned from Bacone College…”; 6) September 27, 1939 news clipping, (Title partially lacking) “[…]len Speaker’s […]ticle on Pop [Ch]alee in ‘Desert’”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Likes Indian Art”; 8) August, 11, 1939, untitled news clipping, “R.H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor correspondent…”.
f. 12v: 1) 1937, Exhibition advertisement, The Watercolor Gallery, Goose Rocks Beach, Maine; 2) Undated news clipping, “Indian Art is Going Streamlined Says Foremost of Oklahoma Group”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Exhibitors at the Indian Ceremonial”; 4) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Jack Hopkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Hopkins…”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Thornton Wilder Sees Tony Lujan at Tombe in Taos”; 6) Undated news clipping, “Three Famed Santa Fe Indian School Artists Featured in Ceremonial Show”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Devil Dance Poster to Announce Gallup Ceremonial in ’39”.
f. 13r: 1) Albuquerque Tribune, December 9, 1938 news clipping, “Taos Girl Among Best-Known Indian Artists Showing Work at La Quinta”; 2) S.L. Tel. (Salt Lake Telegram?), April 16, 1934 news clipping, “Indian Princess Gives Lecture on Art Work”; 3) July 26, 1940 news clipping, “Visitor Buys Pop Chalee Art”; 4) October 13, 1939 news clipping, “Pop-Chalee Moving from Acequia Madre Studio”; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Allan Houser, Apache Indian artist…”; 6) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Roy A. Keech of 914 Canyon Road…”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Young Taos Artist Here For Exhibit”; 8) Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1939 news clipping, “City Paid Visit By Indian Artist”; 9) June 20, 1940 news clipping, “Heads Of College Arts Departments Are Visitors Here”; 10) September 9, 1940, “Paul Coze Visits Santa Fe Friends”.
f. 13v: 1) Undated news clipping, “50 Students of Indian School Show Paintings at Museum”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Indian Art Depends on Anglo Response, Says Mr. Chapman”; 3) The Santa Fe New Mexican, July 6, 1943 news clipping, “Distinctive Murals of the Southwest Are Painted by Pop Chalee for Hinkel’s”.
Laid in: Copy of “El Palacio”, May 12-19-26, 1937.
f. 14r: 1) Undated news clipping, “In the Colony”; 2) July 20, 1940, Newsprint photos of Pop Chalee art.
f. 14v: 1) The Santa Fe New Mexican, undated news clipping, photo of Pop Chalee.
f. 15r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Art That Voices the Spirit of Nature”.
f. 15v: 1) The Salt Lake Tribune, undated news clipping, “France Boosts Indian Art, Says Painter”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Rehabilitation Work Started”; 3) The Salt Lake Telegram, January 1, 1941 news clipping, “Paint Old Legends of Their Tribesmen, Forefathers”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee to Exhibit Series of Indian Paintings at Gallup”; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Stokowski, conductor unique…”; 6) The Santa Fe New Mexican, August 22, 1940, “Spanish, Mexican, Indian and Colonial Costumes Pre-Viewed at Fiesta Tea by Over 800”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Exhibits Are Blazing Color”.
Laid in: “Pic” Magazine, June 6, 1944 (extremely fragile)
f. 16r: 1) Undated news clipping, photo of Pop Chalee and photo of Pop Chalee painting “Buffaloes”; 2) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee, pretty Indian artist…”
f. 16v: 1) November 6, 1938 news clipping, “The Adventure of ‘Pop Chalee’s’ Chipmunk”; 2) Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 5, 1942, “Portrait Artist Introduced at Gallery Tea; Honesty and Force Praised in Her Work”; 3) Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 5, 1942, “Indians Good Luck for Army Writes Cochiti from Abroad; Christmas Boxes for Them Provided at Lecture; 4) New York Daily News, April 20, 1941 news clipping, “Indian Finds New Acclaim for her Art”; 5) Ribbon, “Second Prize, Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico, 1938”.
f. 17r: 1) Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1940 news clippings, “Introducing: Pop-Chalee”; 2) Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 23, 1940, “Pop-Chalee Brings Ring of Zuni God Back From Gallup”.
f. 17v: 1) Albuquerque Journal, April 10, 1941 news clipping, “Parisian Art Substitute”; 2) The Santa Fe New Mexican, June 26, 1943 news clipping, “Dona Tarabilla in Santa Fe”; 3) The Santa Fe New Mexican, September 9, 1942 news clipping, “ Fiesta Art Exhibit Like Fiesta is ‘Shorter’ This …”
Laid in: Undated photograph of Pop Chalee and others standing in from of a horse.
f. 18r: 1) December 23, 1993 news clipping, “She Walked in Beauty”; 2) Undated news clipping (ca. December 1993), “A memorial service…”; 3) January 21-24, 1994 news clipping, “Memorial Service”; 4) Santa Fe Reporter, January 19-25, 1994 news clipping, “Finally, on a sad note, a memorial service…”
f. 18v: 1) Undated news clipping (ca. December 1993), “Noted Indian artist Pop Chalee dies of stroke at 87”; 2) 1994, Pop Chalee tribute invitation; 3) 1994, Pop Chalee tribute program.
Laid in: 1) The Santa Fe New Mexican, February, 28, 1944 news clipping, “Elite of Art and Political Circles Gather at Luhan Birthday Party”; 2) The Desert News, June 6, 1935 news clipping, “Primary Association Will Present Travelogue Program Saturday Night”; 3) 1994, Pop Chalee tribute invitation; 4) Undated news clipping, “Sculptor Allan Houser Dies at Santa Fe Home”.
Inside back cover: Undated news clipping, “Paragraphs”.
Back cover: Blank
Front Cover: Original painting of blue deer by Pop Chalee Inside front cover: Blank
Laid in: 1) Undated news clipping, “Artist ‘Amazes’ Gallery Owner; 2) 1947 new clipping, “Pop Chalee is Wed in Navajo Ceremony”; 3) Herald Express, May 16, 1950 news clipping, “Indian Reservations Perfect Examples of the Welfare State”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Indians Pour into Gallup; 5) Undated news clipping, “Indian Dancers at ‘U’ Attract Enthusiastic S.L. Audience; 6) Undated news clipping, “Indian Rites Highlight Spring in New Mexico, 7) Undated news photo with caption, “Inter-tribal Indian ceremonial…” 8) The Arizona Republic, February 22, 1970 news clipping, “Darling of the resort owners, pet of the art collectors back in town”
f. 1r: 1) March 17, 1972 news clipping, “It happened”; 2) Strainer September 26, 1946 news clipping, “AB’s Famed Indian Murals and their Creator… Pop Chalee”
f. 1v: 1) Scottsdale, Arizona, November 2, 1971 news clipping: “Ranch to Revive Indian Crafts Center”; 2) Typed correspondence to Pop Chalee from Lola Harman, May 13, 1965 with 9 prints of paintings by Fred Harman.
Laid in: 1) The Phoenix Gazette, July 18, 1970 news article, “Famous Indian Painters in Exhibition”
f. 2r: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 31, 1939 news clipping, “Untaught Indian Girl Becomes Prize Painter”
f. 2v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Blue Flower”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Indian Girls Assist at Lecture Tonight; Pop Chalee to Speak”; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “A purple dress …”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Art in the Ancient City”; 5) June 19, 1939, “Large Gathering Hears Talk on Indian Art at Arsuna”; 6) July 17, 1941 news clipping, “Pop Chalee Exhibits Work at Museum”; 7) January 23, 1941, “Painter Gains Fame for Art of Indian Life”
Laid in: 1) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee Develops her Own Indian Art”
f. 3r: 1) The Desert News, January 1, 1941 news clipping, “Noted Taos Indian Artist Finds Herself Unknown in her Native State of Utah”; 2) September 1, 1940 news clipping, “Irreverent Caricatures Show Village Personages”; 3) November 18, 1940 news clippings, “Picturesque”; 4) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Feg Murray, cartoonist …” ; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “-ed by Pop, we might not recognize it.”; 6) The Evanston Review, November 14, 1940, “Taos Indian Artist Exhibits Work at Deering Library”; 7) November 22, 1940 news clipping, “Exhibit of Indian Art Opens this Afternoon”; 8) November 21, 1940 news clipping, “Giving Tea for Artist”, 9) Undated news clipping, “Says Easterners Know Indians Best”; 10) Undated newspaper advertisement, “Fred Wilson Presents his Second Annual Indian Arts and Crafts Exhibit”
f. 3v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Indian Artists Show in April; 2) The Taoseno, March 27, 1941 news clipping, “The Artists of Taos Pueblo”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Mrs. Cassidy and Madame Maruchess Return from Tour; 4) Undated news clipping, “The Ferris Wheel”, 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee will show 15 watercolors …” ; 6) Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 17, 1941 news clipping, “ Pop Chalee Exhibits Work at Museum”
f. 4r: The New York Times, September 1, 1940 news photos, “Red Men’s Festival”
f. 4v: 1) Reno Evening Gazette, undated, untitled news article, “Seen in a local store amid a display of articles…” ; 2) Undated, untitled news clipping, “People who have been ransacking the shops for Christmas cards …” ; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee may go into the movies …” ; 4) Santa Fe New Mexico, December 13, 1940, news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 5) November 18, 1940 news clipping, “Picturesque”; 6) December 1937 news clipping, “ Indian Artists Open Exhibit At Torreon Today”; 7) July 21, 1940 news clipping, “‘Monitor’ Features Art of N.M. Indians Reproduced in Color; “ 8) Undated news article, “Indian Artist of Fame, Former Utahn”; 9) Undated news clipping, “National Art Week Exhibits Here Unworthy, Critic Finds”
f. 5r: The Christian Science Monitor Weekly, undated news clipping, “Indians as Seen in Their Paintings”
f. 5v: 1) Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 13, 1940, news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Indian Artists, Strikes New Note in Chicago Social Circles; 2) Undated news photo of Pop Chalee; 3) Chicago Herald-American, undated news clipping, “Mrs. J. Ogden Armour Entertains Indian Artist Pop Chalee”; 4) 1940 news clipping, “National Art Week Exhibits Here Unworthy, Critic Finds”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Acee Blue Eagle Oklahoma Artist Visits Pop Chalee”
f. 6r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Sallie Green’s Adept Portraiture Seen in Mid-Month Museum Exhibit”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “An Indian princess visited the first grade …” ; 4) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Three well known Indian artists … “ ; 5) Undated news clipping, “Entertained by Women’s Board; Visit the Galleries”; 6) Undated, untitled news clipping, “A lecture on Indian art …”; 7) April 21, 1934 news clipping, “Indian Play Listed at Whitney Hall Monday”; 8) Undated news clipping, “Artists Perpetuate Heritage”.
f. 6v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Local Indian Artist Makes Big Success in Phoenix”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Luminaries, Indian Fires, and Chants as Shusters Entertain”; 3) Santa Fe New Mexican(?), February 15 (1940?) news clipping, “Scanning— New Books”; 4) The New Mexico Daily Examiner, March 24, 1940 news clipping, “Autographed Book for Chipmunk Patrol”; 5) The New Mexico Examiner, March 13, 1940 news clipping, “Paintings by Pop Chalee in Los Angeles Paper”; 6) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Roy A. Keech’s new book of poems …”; 7) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Keech received honors this week…”; 8) March 7, 1946 news clipping, “Eastern Press Compares Tony Lujan to Indian Head on Buffalo Nickel”; 9) New Mexico Daily Examiner, October 27, 1939 news clipping, “Roy Keech’s Book ‘Pagans Praying’ to be Out Soon”.
f. 7r: 1) June 16, 1940 news clipping, “Cuarto Centennial Exhibit Covers Fifty Years of Art”; 2) Phoenix, Arizona, March 4, 1946 news clipping, “Dinner Party Will Honor Indian Artist”; 3) Santa Fe New Mexican, January 29, 1940 news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 4) New Mexico Examiner, February 11, 1940, “‘Pagans Praying,’ Roy Keech’s Indian Dance Poems, Illustrated by Pop Chalee, Just Published”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Pen and Paint Box”.
f. 7v: 1) Undated news clipping, “Big Mural Painted by Pop Chalee Hung at Marshall Field Exhibit”; 2) Undated news clipping, “In the Colony”; 3) December 6 (no year) news clipping, “Noted Indian Artist Discusses Art of Her People at Club Meet”; 4) Los Angeles, undated news clipping, “Indian Art Stressed in Exhibits”; 5) Santa Fe New Mexico, October 29, 1940 news clipping, “British Boy Will Send War Days at the U.S. Indian School”; 6) November 2, 1938 news clipping, “Pop Chalee to be in ‘Who’s Who’”; 7) August 20, 1940 news clipping, “Santa Feans Return from Ceremonial”.
f. 8r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Stokowski to Record Indian Music of Taos”; 2) February 15, 1939 news clipping, “Names of New Mexico Artists Who Will Exhibit at New York World’s Fair Are Announced”; 3) Undated, untitled news clipping, “A straight Indian painting show …”; 4) December 14, 1938 news clipping, “Santa Fe Gallery Open for Christmas”; 5) Santa Fe New Mexican, January 6, 1939 news clipping, “Disney Would Love Pop Chalee’s Trees, Animals, Says Critic”; 6) New Mexico Examiner, December 13 (no year) news clipping, “Honored”; 7) Albuquerque Tribune, April 1, 1939 news clipping, “Indian Artists Paint Murals Here; Work on Front of Store Building”; Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee to Be in ‘Who’s Who’”.
f. 8v: 1) Rochester Evening News, November 29, 1938 news clipping, “Indian Art Lauded”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Bishop’s Lodge Entertainments”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Indian Dinner Served Taos Style”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Paintings by Indians”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Spring Show at Sena Plaza Gallery in Mood of Season”; 6) Undated news clipping, “‘Keep Santa Fe’s Charm’ Lecturer Urges at Arsuna”.
f. 9r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Large Gathering Hears Talk on Indian Art at Arsuna”; 2) The Santa Fe New Mexican, March 27, 1939 news clipping, “Exhibits by Santa Fe Indian School Students Current in Los Angeles and San Francisco Receive Praise of Critics”; 3) October 23, 1989 news clipping, Allan Houser, Noted Indian Artist, Weds; 4) November 12, 1939 news clipping, “Pop Chalee Leaving For Stay in Phoenix”.
f. 9v: 1) Cleveland, Ohio, undated news clipping, “Fights for Rights of Tribe”; 2) November 6, 1938, “The Adventures of ‘Pop Chalee’s’ Chipmunk”
Laid in: 1) The Taos News, October 19, 2006 news article, “Up From Obscurity: Taos Pueblo’s Famous Painter, Pop Chalee”; 2) The New Mexican, July 22, 1979 news article, “Navajo Medicine Woman Busy Healing and Blessing”; 3) The Arizona Republic, August 12, 1976 news clipping, “Record Company for Indian Music Only”; 4) Undated news clipping, “The Subject is Roses”; 5) Undated clipped news photo, caption, “Pop Chalee (Blue Flower) is a Taos Indian artist”; 6) Pasadena Star News, January 17, 1951, news photo, caption, “Inspect New Santa Fe Train…” ; 7) The Arizona Republic, May 7, 1975 news clipping, “Mexican Folk Art Previewed”; 8) Photograph, unidentified subjects, dated October 1974; 9) Photographic reproduction, Pop Chalee, undated; 10) Photographic reproduction, unknown female subject standing in front of car, undated; 11) Photographic reproduction, Jack Hopkins, Sr.(?) at Taos Pueblo(?), undated; 12) Photographic reproduction, unknown young male subjects, possibly at Taos Pueblo, undated.
f. 10r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Letters to the Editor”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Helen Cunningham Has Sunday Art Tour”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Acee Blue Eagle Oklahoma Artist Visits Pop Chalee”; 4) Undated news clipping, “World’s Fair Not All in Fun; Will Benefit Indians”; 5) March 9, 1934 news clipping, “Salt Lake-Born Indian Girl Devoting Life to Fight for Full Legal Rights for Tribe”.
f. 10v: 1) The Desert News, June 6, 1935 news clipping, “Primary Association Will Present Travelogue Program Saturday Night”; 2) Undated news clipping (damaged with title and majority of article lacking), “‘Monitor’ Features …”; 3) Undated news clipping, Club to Hear Talk by Indian Princess”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Indian Princess Visits First Grade Children”; 5) August 1934 news clipping, “Are the Redskins Musical? Ask Lujan Popsicles— She Knows. Anyway, Redmen Sing, She Says”; 6) Tribune, March 9, 1934 news clipping, “Secret Ceremonies of Tribe Described”.
f. 11r: 1) The Santa Fe New Mexican, July, 17, 1939 news clipping, “Royalty Plays Large Part in the Highly Successful World’s Fair”; 2) The Santa Fe New Mexican, September 24, 1939, “Indian Artists Take Honors at Gallup”; 3) The New Mexico Examiner, July 13, 1939 news clipping, “World’s Fair Stage Sets Being Made”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Work of Indian Artists”; 5) The New Mexico Examiner, July 11, 1939, news clipping, “Party at Pop Chalee’s Features Indian Dances”; 6) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee Hostess at Party for Palestine Artists”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Indian Princess Gives Lecture on Art Work”.
f. 11v: 1) November 28, 1940 news clipping, “ National Art Week Exhibits Here Unworthy, Critic Finds”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Magnificent Show By Indian Dancers”; 3) The Santa Fe New Mexican(?), January 1, 1941 news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 4) The Amarillo Daily News, undated news clipping, “‘Pagans Praying’ by Roy A. Keech Captures Spirit and Atmosphere of Pueblo Indians”; 5) The Santa Fe New Mexican(?), undated news clipping, “Village Gossip”; 6) 1941 news clipping, “Says Indians Are Encouraged”; 7) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Indian artist of Santa Fe…” 8) December 26, 1939 news clipping, “Pop Chalee Heads for Radio Career?”; 9) Undated news clipping, “People You Know”.
f. 12r: 1) Undated news photo, caption, “Pop Chalee (Merina Lujan Hopkins). Prominent Taos artist displays her paintings in the Exhibit Hall”; 2) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee, Indian artist of Santa Fe…”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Pop-Chalee Leaving for Stay in Phoenix”; 4) Los Angeles Examiner, January 2, 1939 news clipping, “Foremost Indian Artist Brings Dozen Works Here”; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Jack Hopkins has returned from Bacone College…”; 6) September 27, 1939 news clipping, (Title partially lacking) “[…]len Speaker’s […]ticle on Pop [Ch]alee in ‘Desert’”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Likes Indian Art”; 8) August, 11, 1939, untitled news clipping, “R.H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor correspondent…”.
f. 12v: 1) 1937, Exhibition advertisement, The Watercolor Gallery, Goose Rocks Beach, Maine; 2) Undated news clipping, “Indian Art is Going Streamlined Says Foremost of Oklahoma Group”; 3) Undated news clipping, “Exhibitors at the Indian Ceremonial”; 4) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Jack Hopkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Hopkins…”; 5) Undated news clipping, “Thornton Wilder Sees Tony Lujan at Tombe in Taos”; 6) Undated news clipping, “Three Famed Santa Fe Indian School Artists Featured in Ceremonial Show”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Devil Dance Poster to Announce Gallup Ceremonial in ’39”.
f. 13r: 1) Albuquerque Tribune, December 9, 1938 news clipping, “Taos Girl Among Best-Known Indian Artists Showing Work at La Quinta”; 2) S.L. Tel. (Salt Lake Telegram?), April 16, 1934 news clipping, “Indian Princess Gives Lecture on Art Work”; 3) July 26, 1940 news clipping, “Visitor Buys Pop Chalee Art”; 4) October 13, 1939 news clipping, “Pop-Chalee Moving from Acequia Madre Studio”; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Allan Houser, Apache Indian artist…”; 6) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Roy A. Keech of 914 Canyon Road…”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Young Taos Artist Here For Exhibit”; 8) Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1939 news clipping, “City Paid Visit By Indian Artist”; 9) June 20, 1940 news clipping, “Heads Of College Arts Departments Are Visitors Here”; 10) September 9, 1940, “Paul Coze Visits Santa Fe Friends”.
f. 13v: 1) Undated news clipping, “50 Students of Indian School Show Paintings at Museum”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Indian Art Depends on Anglo Response, Says Mr. Chapman”; 3) The Santa Fe New Mexican, July 6, 1943 news clipping, “Distinctive Murals of the Southwest Are Painted by Pop Chalee for Hinkel’s”.
Laid in: Copy of “El Palacio”, May 12-19-26, 1937.
f. 14r: 1) Undated news clipping, “In the Colony”; 2) July 20, 1940, Newsprint photos of Pop Chalee art.
f. 14v: 1) The Santa Fe New Mexican, undated news clipping, photo of Pop Chalee.
f. 15r: 1) Undated news clipping, “Art That Voices the Spirit of Nature”.
f. 15v: 1) The Salt Lake Tribune, undated news clipping, “France Boosts Indian Art, Says Painter”; 2) Undated news clipping, “Rehabilitation Work Started”; 3) The Salt Lake Telegram, January 1, 1941 news clipping, “Paint Old Legends of Their Tribesmen, Forefathers”; 4) Undated news clipping, “Pop Chalee to Exhibit Series of Indian Paintings at Gallup”; 5) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Stokowski, conductor unique…”; 6) The Santa Fe New Mexican, August 22, 1940, “Spanish, Mexican, Indian and Colonial Costumes Pre-Viewed at Fiesta Tea by Over 800”; 7) Undated news clipping, “Exhibits Are Blazing Color”.
Laid in: “Pic” Magazine, June 6, 1944 (extremely fragile)
f. 16r: 1) Undated news clipping, photo of Pop Chalee and photo of Pop Chalee painting “Buffaloes”; 2) Undated, untitled news clipping, “Pop Chalee, pretty Indian artist…”
f. 16v: 1) November 6, 1938 news clipping, “The Adventure of ‘Pop Chalee’s’ Chipmunk”; 2) Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 5, 1942, “Portrait Artist Introduced at Gallery Tea; Honesty and Force Praised in Her Work”; 3) Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 5, 1942, “Indians Good Luck for Army Writes Cochiti from Abroad; Christmas Boxes for Them Provided at Lecture; 4) New York Daily News, April 20, 1941 news clipping, “Indian Finds New Acclaim for her Art”; 5) Ribbon, “Second Prize, Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico, 1938”.
f. 17r: 1) Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1940 news clippings, “Introducing: Pop-Chalee”; 2) Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 23, 1940, “Pop-Chalee Brings Ring of Zuni God Back From Gallup”.
f. 17v: 1) Albuquerque Journal, April 10, 1941 news clipping, “Parisian Art Substitute”; 2) The Santa Fe New Mexican, June 26, 1943 news clipping, “Dona Tarabilla in Santa Fe”; 3) The Santa Fe New Mexican, September 9, 1942 news clipping, “ Fiesta Art Exhibit Like Fiesta is ‘Shorter’ This …”
Laid in: Undated photograph of Pop Chalee and others standing in from of a horse.
f. 18r: 1) December 23, 1993 news clipping, “She Walked in Beauty”; 2) Undated news clipping (ca. December 1993), “A memorial service…”; 3) January 21-24, 1994 news clipping, “Memorial Service”; 4) Santa Fe Reporter, January 19-25, 1994 news clipping, “Finally, on a sad note, a memorial service…”
f. 18v: 1) Undated news clipping (ca. December 1993), “Noted Indian artist Pop Chalee dies of stroke at 87”; 2) 1994, Pop Chalee tribute invitation; 3) 1994, Pop Chalee tribute program.
Laid in: 1) The Santa Fe New Mexican, February, 28, 1944 news clipping, “Elite of Art and Political Circles Gather at Luhan Birthday Party”; 2) The Desert News, June 6, 1935 news clipping, “Primary Association Will Present Travelogue Program Saturday Night”; 3) 1994, Pop Chalee tribute invitation; 4) Undated news clipping, “Sculptor Allan Houser Dies at Santa Fe Home”.
Inside back cover: Undated news clipping, “Paragraphs”.
Back cover: Blank
Dates
- ca. 1930s-1940s
Extent
1 bound scrapbook
Language of Materials
From the Collection: Undetermined
Repository Details
Part of the Institute of American Indian Arts Repository
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