Original Painting “From the Mountain Chant” [SOLD]

Walters attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, in 1962-63, the Kansas City Art Institute, and the College of Santa Fe.  While a student, he won several honors at various shows, particularly at the Gallup annual Inter-tribal shows.  He has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Museum of New Mexico, at Philbrook, in Scottsdale, in Gallup and many other cities and institutions during his career.

Walters is a scholar whose work focused on the culture and philosophy of his people.  He devoted 35 years of his life as an educator and director of the museum at Diné College in Tsalie, Arizona, from which he retired in 2008. He now lives on the Navajo Reservation in northeast Arizona, in a small community called Water Well, with his wife of 44 years, Anna Walters.

His paintings reflect Navajo life as it is today as well as scenes from Navajo myths and legends.  His style reflects an almost impressionistic one.  His treatment of the multi-colored grasses in the foreground is exceptional and the Navajo man is rendered in classic detail.  The painting is signed and dated Harry Walters 64 in lower right.  This would indicate that he painted it at the age of only 21.

This painting has a notation on verso that states: "From: The 'Mountain Chant' on the third morning the patient goes out to the hills to make an offering."

Also on verso is a rubber stamp indicating the painting was purchased from Balcomb's Indian Arts, 811 West Coal Avenue, Gallup, NM.

Condition: The painting appears to be in original condition.  It is framed in the original wood frame with all acid-free materials.

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust