Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1108 | |
| 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 | 28 October 1946 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Untitled painting on white watercolor paper, depicting Navajo woman (shown in left profile) wearing red skirt and maroon blouse and carrying bucket of water as she walks; In front of her is a black and white dog that is jumping up, trying to retrieve a stick held in the woman's hand; Woman and dog walk along a barren landscape strewn with stylized rocks (?) and a single green and yellow rabbitbrush plant; Signature "Beatian Yazz" is printed in gray-brown paint in lower left corner; Date of painting is handwritten in pencil upper left corner on reverse. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 45.4, Length = 37.4 | |