Painting of a Young Navajo Boy Tending his Sheep [R]

Special Value Offer:  The consignor of this painting, and its companion painting (item # C3017A), has move from Santa Fe and is interested in selling both paintings, so she has authorized us to reduce the price by 20% from $750 to $600 on each.

Begay is probably the most famous of the Navajo artists. He has had a long and distinguished career. He started painting while attending the Santa Fe Indian School and began to paint full time after returning from service in World War II.

His favorite subjects are the Diné and their life on the reservation. There is an innocence is his depictions of Navajo life. It probably reflects on his remembrances of life when he was a youngster. He was born in 1917.

This painting depicts a young Navajo boy tending to his sheep while accompanied by his faithful dog companion. It is practically a mirror image of another Begay painting we have on-line (our item number C3017A) featuring a Navajo girl in a similar scene. The two paintings make a wonderful pair. The frame has a few nicks in the wood on the two side pieces.

Provenance: ex. coll. Santa Fe art collector