Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery
Exhibits of Native American & Western artwork & crafts, including paintings by Maynard Dixon.
About Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery
Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery is a Tucson gallery focused on Native American, modern, and early Western art. Its offerings include artwork and crafts, with collections that range from historic pieces to work by contemporary artists. The gallery also features paintings by Maynard Dixon, connecting its Western art selections with one of the artists specifically highlighted in its Tucson directory listing.
The fine arts collection includes contemporary paintings and sculptures, historic artwork, early Western artwork, and work by early New Mexico artists. Visitors can also explore categories devoted to Western Native modern art, contemporary jewelry, Western photography, and wood art, pottery, and furnishings. The gallery organizes Western fine art by genre and offers lithographs, prints, books, and related materials. Its site also identifies artists and collections such as Maynard Dixon and Ed Mell, giving the fine arts section a broad range across periods, media, and approaches.
Native American art is another major part of the gallery's focus. The selection includes contemporary and historic Pueblo pottery, Maria Martinez pottery, Tony Da pottery, Native American baskets, fine art, beadwork, and Hopi and Zuni kachinas, also spelled katsinas. The gallery provides information about Pueblo pottery hallmarks and also presents ethnographic material, Native American rugs and blankets, and other forms of Native American art. These categories allow the collection to be explored through both individual artists and object types.
Jewelry and textiles receive detailed attention as well. The Native American jewelry collection includes bracelets, earrings, rings, necklaces, squash blossoms, concho belts and buckles, Old Pawn jewelry, contemporary Native American jewelry, vintage Mexican jewelry, bolos, watches, pins, and boxes. The site also includes information about Native American Indian hallmarks, along with trade beads, silverware, and ketohs. Its Navajo rug and weaving selections include large rugs, runners, blankets, chief blankets, Germantown and Eyedazzler weavings, pictorials, saddle blankets, and regional or pattern categories such as Burntwater, Ganado, Red Mesa, Teec Nos Pos, Toadlena Two Grey Hills, Wide Ruins, Yei, and sandpainting rugs. Pueblo weavings, Rio Grande and Chimayo blankets, sashes, dress halves, and antique Navajo textile pillows and purses are included as well.
Medicine Man Gallery's website is also structured as a resource for ongoing discovery. It features gallery events, featured artists, artist biographies, Western art news and press, educational videos, learning materials, an Art Dealer Diaries podcast, and Essential West Magazine. The site offers estate collections and posts changing selections of jewelry, pottery, baskets, textiles, and fine art. Recent listings include works connected with artists and makers such as Tommy Singer, Maria Martinez, Emmi Whitehorse, Shonto Begay, and Marcus Amerman, among many others. The gallery also provides avenues for selling art and for auctions, although specific terms are not included in the available material.
In Tucson, the gallery gives visitors and collectors several ways to begin exploring its selection. They can browse the online categories, review featured artists and educational resources, follow gallery events and new collection postings, or inquire about available artwork. The range extends from paintings and sculpture to pottery, jewelry, baskets, rugs, photography, and furnishings, making Medicine Man Gallery a Tucson destination for Native American and Western art in many forms.