Navajo (Dine) Painting of Young Boy Feeding a Squirrel [SOLD]

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Beatien Yazz, Navajo Nation Painter
  • Category: Paintings
  • Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
  • Medium: Casein on Mat-board
  • Size: 18-1/4" x 13-1/4" image: UNFRAMED
  • Item # C2962N
  • SOLD

Yazz relates in the book Yazz, Navajo Painter that he had a happy childhood, roaming over the plains and canyons of the Navajo Reservation. He and his closest friend, Philip Shorty, would spend their days playing, swimming in muddy waters, and shooting anything they could find with their slingshots.

It is with this memory that Yazz has portrayed the lives of young Navajo boys in his paintings. In this one, a young Navajo boy is sitting around enticing a squirrel to eat from his hand. This is, quite possibly, something Yazz personally did. If not, he probably knew young boys who did.

Condition: The painting is in original excellent condition. It has never been framed and is currently shrink-wrapped for protection. It is signed in lower right.

Provenance: This painting is among a collection from the Balcomb family, formerly owners of an art gallery which they closed in 1976.

Beatien Yazz, Navajo Nation Painter
  • Category: Paintings
  • Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
  • Medium: Casein on Mat-board
  • Size: 18-1/4" x 13-1/4" image: UNFRAMED
  • Item # C2962N
  • SOLD

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