Pablita Velarde launched a female dynasty in the art world with her own “studio style” paintings and subsequent works by her daughter, Helen Hardin, and her granddaughter, Margarete Bagshaw.

All three women broke boundaries — Velarde by taking brush to canvas, something Santa Clara Pueblo women were forbidden to do; Hardin with her forays combining traditional cultural imagery with geometry; and Bagshaw with her large-scale works reflecting both pueblo motifs and the modern artists of her time.