Margarete Bagshaw Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1964 - d. 2015

Margarete Bagshaw (November 11, 1964 – March 19, 2015) was an American artist known for her paintings and pottery. She was descended from the Tewa people of K'apovi or the Kha'p'oo Owinge, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.

Early life: Margarete Bagshaw was born November 11, 1964 and was the daughter of artist Helen Hardin and Pat Terrazas, and the granddaughter of Santa Clara Pueblo artist Pablita Velarde.

Bagshaw grew up in New Mexico and lived most of her life between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, however as a young child she was living with her mother for several years in Colombia and Guatemala.

She married at age 19 to Greg Tindel, a master framer. She did not start to create her own artwork until 1990, at the age of 26, while she was pregnant with her second child. Early in her work as an artist, her spouse Tindel encouraged her to share her artwork with others. Bagshaw started having more confidence in her work as an artist, after a series of positive responses followed.

Art career: In 2006, after divorcing and settling her grandmother's estate, she moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands, living with her second husband Dan McGuinness. She was a founding partner and co-builder of ISW Studios — a recording and multimedia studio. While in the Virgin Islands she continued to paint and send her work back to New Mexico.

The couple returned to New Mexico in 2009. In 2009 until 2015, the couple owned Golden Dawn Gallery in New Mexico.

In 2012, Margarete Bagshaw co-founded the Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women, dedicated to her grandmother's legacy as well as other female Native American artists in Santa Fe, however it closed in 2015 when Margarete passed away.

In 2012, Bagshaw wrote and published her memoirs Teaching My Spirit to Fly along with her mother's biography A Straight Line Curved by Kate Nelson, and her grandmother's biography Pablita Velarde, In Her Own Words by Shelby Tisdale. Bagshaw's memoirs chronicled her early life living with a family of famous artists. She also wrote about her artistic and business life and detailed betrayal by a best friend and family.

On March 19, 2015, Margarete Bagshaw died at the age of 50 after having a stroke and then subsequently diagnosed with brain cancer. Her death sparked a estate battle between her surviving children and her second husband, Dan McGuinness.

Personal life: She married in 1984 to Greg Tindel and together they had two children, Forrest Tindel and Helen K. Tindel. Her daughter is a painter The couple eventually divorced.

Her second marriage was to Dan McGuinness and they remained together until her death in 2015.