# Margaret Tafoya artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/margaret-tafoya/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:24:41.172Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Movements: Santa Clara Pueblo pottery tradition
- Common media: Pottery, Ceramics

## Portrait

![Margaret Tafoya](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Photo_of_Margaret_Tafoya.jpg)
Margaret Tafoya · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Tafoya

## About Margaret Tafoya

Margaret Tafoya (1904–2001) was a traditional pottery artist of Santa Clara Pueblo. Authority links in the collected source pack connect her identity to Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, and ISNI. A collected biographical summary also describes her as a matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters, placing her within a community pottery tradition rather than a conventional European-style art movement. Collectors are most likely to encounter her name on attributed pottery or in reference material about Santa Clara Pueblo ceramics. Maria Margarita Tafoya appears as an alternate name form. The available evidence distinguishes the artist and her broad field, but it does not document recurring vessel forms, surface treatments, motifs, signatures, or career periods. Those details should be verified from the individual object and stronger institutional records before publication or appraisal.

## Common works and media

Pottery is the only work type securely supported by the collected sources. The pack does not provide enough object-level evidence to identify particular vessel forms, decorative subjects, techniques, editions, or recurring series. Individual works should therefore be described from direct examination and documented provenance rather than assumptions based on the artist’s name.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin with identity and attribution: the available authority records distinguish Margaret Tafoya as a Santa Clara Pueblo pottery artist, while the Appraisily input indicates an auction-record set associated with her name. This source pack does not expose the underlying lot descriptions or results, so it cannot support claims about price trends, recurring forms, rarity, condition effects, provenance premiums, or signature practices. For an appraisal, object-level evidence should be compared with relevant public sales by checking attribution language, sale date, realized price, work type, dimensions, condition, and provenance when those fields are available. These are comparison inputs, not a forecast or guarantee of value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this profile, identity evidence is stronger than the collected object-level market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759946
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Tafoya
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500127578
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/91724227/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85298550
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/136324533
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/000000007885463X
- Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Margarita-Tafoya
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/margaret-tafoya/