James Wayne Yazzie Navajo Rug Weavers 1962 painting

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James Wayne Yazzie Navajo Rug Weavers 1962
Beautifully executed ORIGINAL painting on art board.
Image size 16" x 20"
James Wayne Yazzie [1943-1969] was a "gifted and independent primitive" (Dunn 1968) who produced large arresting native scenes of the Navajo. Although self-taught, Yazzie used the Santa Fe Indian School Studio style in his art. His use of flatly applied color areas and pastel hues are mistakenly derived from the early works of Harrison Begay and Gerald Nailor, but he was more concerned with specific time, place and circumstances rather than with an imagined idealization. (Brody, 1971).
Yazzie was killed in a train accident in 1969. (Tanner, 1973)
James Wayne Yazzie died at a young age of 26 years. This is a very important piece of Native American art.
[artist info from morningstartraders and adobeartgallery]
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