Career
He was part of the art movement known as the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group. Awa Tsireh"s family was very active in the arts He was one of the earliest of the San Ildefonso painters and his formal education did not extend past grade school.
In 1917, American artist William Penhallow Henderson painted a portrait of young Awa Tsireh which can now be found in the New Mexico Museum of Artist
Henderson"s wife, Alice Corbin Henderson, was a patron of Awa Tsireh.
