This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Margarete Bagshaw is the daughter and grand daughter of famed pueblo Indian motif-women painters. Her mother was Helen Hardin (1943-1984), and her grandmother was Pablita Velarde (1918-2006).
When Bagshaw was a young adult her mother became ill, and when her mother died, she left school, got married, and
worked in a succession of jobs including that of waitress, car
salesperson, and manager of an art gallery. Although she had been
raised around working artists, she did not begin her own career until
after the birth of her second child.
Aware and admiring of the successful artistic reputations of her mother and grandmother, Bagshaw, nevertheless, wanted to develop her own style and became proud
that she found her own art. Her colorful abstract* paintings are
full of complex patterns and subtle shading, and are inspired, not by Native
American motifs, but by her responses to her own feelings and to a sense of spiritualism. Also, while living in the Virgin Islands, she produced a number of clay pieces.
Today Margarete Bagshaw lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she owns an art gallery from where she sells her artwork.
Sources:
Southwest Art, July 2005
Information from the artist, 2010
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Biography from Golden Dawn Gallery:
|  Modernist artist Margarete Bagshaw uses color, shape, light,
composition, symmetry, and texture to express spirituality and many
layers of thought. She paints two-dimensional works on canvas and
board panels and sculpts three-dimensional works of clay – both flat
and shaped.
She has been featured in magazines including Southwest Art, Native Peoples, and New Mexico Magazine,
and has participated in museum exhibitions including the Eiteljorge
Museum of American and Western Art in Indianapolis, IN; Wheelwright
Museum, Santa Fe, NM; Hamden Museum in Virginia; and the Museum of
Albuquerque, NM.
In 1996, she gave a personal slide presentation at the Te Papa
Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. As the subject of a documentary
film project, Bagshaw spoke at the dedication ceremony for the
donation of The White Collection, featuring a number of her works, at
the Lakeview Museum in Illinois in September of 2008.
After painting and showing in the Virgin Islands for the last three
years, she is now back at home in New Mexico. She was recently
offered a “One Woman” show at an Arizona Museum for the Spring of 2010
and is currently painting for that show.
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