Wade Hadley (Navajo Nation) Tódachine

Wade Hadley - Tódachine, Diné - Navajo Nation artist and painter. "Wade Hadley was drafted before Pearl Harbor, and was in the Pacific theater for the entire period of World War II. From time to time he sent home humorous pen-and-ink sketches of his army life. One, entitled Why Don't You Paint?, represented a worried G.I., paint brush in hand, before his easel, bombs bursting about him, a large shell hole through his painting. In another, called Yanks in the Tropics, the G.I. in underwear and helmet, covered with very decorative camouflage designs, is sitting on a tin of K-rations in the thin shade of a bending palm up which a huge serpent is climbing, its head toward the unconscious soldier who is being attacked on the other side by an exquisitely-drawn mosquito. The sky is patterned with bombs and over all is a large and smiling symbolic sun. "  -Margretta Stewart Dietrich.

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