In 1926, Edgar L. Hewett, director of the School of American Research invited her to settle in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she was given studio space at the Museum of New Mexico.[7] While in New Mexico she became well respected for her carvings of Pueblo Indians. She traveled to the Pueblos and learned how they make pottery with Maximiliana, the sister of famous San Ildefonso potter, Maria Martinez.[8] Shonnard's Pueblo Indian with Bowl sculpture was unanimously chosen to represent New Mexico in the 1938 exhibition of sculpture at the Architectural League in New York.[9] She had solo exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Art in 1928, 1937 and 1954 and at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in 1969.[10] In May 1954 she was awarded an honorary fellowship in fine arts by the School of American Research and Museum of New Mexico.
Shonnard was an early proponent of the "direct carving" style of creating sculpture. She developed a cement material she called Keenstone which she used for both sculptural and architectural work.[1]
^ abRubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston 1990 p. 246
^Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Artists, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston 1982 p. 212
^Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., "North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary" Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995
^ abExhibition of American Sculpture Catalogue, 156th Street of Broadway New York, The National Sculpture Society 1923, p. 227
^Grauer, Michael R. (2004). "Woman Artists of Santa Fe". American Art Review. XVI (5): 167.
^Wallis, Ada King. "Eugenie Shonnard Highly Honored". Western Woman - Widening Horizons. 16 (1): 8.
^Kovinick, Phil; Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian (1998). An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 278. ISBN0292790635.
^Contemporary American Sculpture, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, The National Sculpture Society 1929 p. 293