Art Dealer Diaries Podcast

Bob Gallegos: Native American Art Dealer - Epi. 21, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

October 24, 2018 Mark Sublette Season 1 Episode 21
Art Dealer Diaries Podcast
Bob Gallegos: Native American Art Dealer - Epi. 21, Host Dr. Mark Sublette
Show Notes

New Mexican Bob Gallegos shares his 40 plus years buying and selling in the antique Antique Native American business. From first buying reproduction arrowheads to building a million dollar collection, how Bob Gallegos turned his passion into a lucrative business and became a leader in the field.  The 1972-1974 Native American Art Craze and how he started collecting antique Native American jewelry and worked with C. G. Wallace. Bob collection of 33 Cochiti large opera singer figurines and how he build the market and got Virgil Ortiz interested in the antique form and turned it into his own style.  What's happening in todays Antique Native American Art Market and with the repatriation of sacred objects.