Painting of a Hopi Left Handed Katsina [SOLD]

Hopi artist Bevins Yuyaheova lived on a village at Second Mesa on the Hopi Reservation.  Unfortunately, he died in an automobile accident at the young age of 31 years.  I would suspect there to be very little of his art available.  Yuyaheova started painting at the suggestion of Hopi artist Mike Kabotie and was strongly influenced by Kabotie.  He got his start painting kiva murals and then was influenced to move on to easel painting.

In his short life, he won a first award at the Arizona State Fair in 1968-the same year this painting of a Left Handed Katsina was completed-and in the same year won a second-place award at the Heard Museum Guild Show.  His paintings were exhibited at the Arizona State Fair, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair, Philbrook Art Center and the Scottsdale National Indian Art Exposition.

This painting is executed in black and white on white paper and is signed in lower right and dated 1968.

Condition: appears to be in original condition but has not been examined out of the frame

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading:  Southwest Indian Painting: a Changing Art by Clara Lee Tanner