Young Diné Girl Sitting and Daydreaming Outdoors [SOLD]

Beatien Yazz's paintings reflect his vision of reservation life, many of which include the activities of children and animals as well as Navajo ceremonies. For a time period his experiences with the Native American Church became the subject of some of his most interesting work.

Beatien Yazz was born in 1928 on the Navajo Reservation and spent his whole life there. He showed promise as an artist very early. At an early age, Yazz met the Lippencotts, traders at the Wide Ruins Trading Post and they made available to him scraps of paper and other equipment so that he might practice in color.  He went on to illustrate two books by Alberta Hannum about life on the reservation:

Paint the Wind

Spin a Silver Dollar 

This painting of a young Diné girl dressed in traditional Navajo style is probably a scene witnessed by Yazz many times.  The young girl seems to be enjoying the solitude of sitting on a rock alone. 

This painting is a wonderful mate to the painting of a young Navajo boy that we have listed as #25793.  Please see the link below under Adobe Gallery Recommended Items.  The painting is framed using acid-free mat board and foam core as backing and in a   brown wood frame with black edging.

Recommended Reading: Yazz: Navajo Painter by J. J. Brody

Condition: appears to be in original condition.