Margarete Bagshaw is a Modernist/Contemporary oil painter. She has been the subject of numerous publications—most recently in a feature article in the Santa Fean “Indian Market 2010 Edition”.  She was one of the artists selected for the 2003 book NDN Art, as well as the 1998 book Pueblo Artists’ Portraits which featured all three generations of Margarete’s family. She has taken part in over a dozen major museum exhibitions, including the Eiteljorge in Indiana, The Museum Of Indian Arts and Culture and the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, the Hamden Museum in Virginia, and invitational shows with the Museum of Albuquerque. In 1996, she gave a presentation at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. In 2007, she was the subject of a documentary film project for the dedication of a collection started at the Lakeview Museum in Peoria.  In March of 2010, Margarete presented a one-woman show at the SMOKI Museum in Prescott. Her painting “Keeping Something Safe” was chosen as the image representing the 18^th annual “Gathering Of Nations 2011” in Albuquerque.

Margarete employs an extensive palette to create works that are richly textured and multi-layered.  Their complexity results from the relationship among the individual parts that can stand alone while contributing to the artistic integrity of the complete work. The power of Margarete’s art derives not only from her technical excellence and compositional sophistication, but also from her reflective and meditative self.