Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1052 | |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Community: Wide Ruins | |
| Maker's Name | Beatien Yazz (Beatian Yazz, Jimmy Toddy) (b. 1928) | |
| Date of Manufacture | February 1943 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Untitled painting on gray-brown construction paper depicting standing buck and reclining doe deer on barren landscape; Two erosion cuts in the hillside behind the deer indicates the deer's position on a low bluff and reveals the multi-colored (gray, rust brown, gold, and white) layering of the underlying soils, in stark contrast to the drab gray-brown of the surrounding landscape; Signature "Beatien Yazz" is printed in black paint in lower right corner; Date of painting is handwritten in pencil in lower center on reverse. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 45.1, Length = 30.2 | |