Vintage Navajo Gouache Painting Rider by Harrison (Haskay Yahne Yah) Begay (ChB)

Aloha,

Up for sale from a estate in Honolulu this vintage Native American Navajo original gouache painting on paper that is untitled, depicting a young native American man riding a horse under stylized clouds signed Harrison Begay. The condition is described above for more details please check the photos. The item will be shipped rolled up in a mailing tube.


Measurements:

Painting (by sight): 10.5 inches x 12.25 inches

Frame: 16.25 inches x 17.75 inches


More about the artist:

Born in White Cone, Arizona, Harrison Begay creates prints and paintings in tempera, watercolor and acrylics of Navajo Indian figures and other Southwest scenes that are regarded as "quiet and peaceful" in tone. He has also painted murals for Maisel's Indian Trading Post in Albuquerque.


He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a member of the Navaho tribe. He attended Fort Wingate Indian School in New Mexico and in 1939, graduated from Santa Fe Indian School. He also attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina and Phoenix Junior College before World War II and studied briefly with painter Gerald Curtis Delano. He began exhibiting his art work in 1946 and worked full time as an artist. He also served three years in the Army during World War II.

Condition: The painting is overall in good pre-owned condition, the paper is evenly toned, the colors are strong, matting is stained, the painting was not inspected out of the frame