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Original Acrylic on Paper by Beatien Yazz

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Original Acrylic on Paper by Beatien Yazz
Signed lower right depicting a warrior. Image measures 17 1/2"x 12 3/4" in single mat with textured black wood frame. Beatien Yazz, Little No Shirt (Jimmy Toddy) was born in 1928 on the Navajo Reservation. Yazz 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. Yazz was also the subject of Alberta Hannum's books Spin a Silver Dollar and Paint the Wind, and his works were used as illustrations. He served in the U.S. Marines in World War II and was a member of the famed Navajo Code Talkers. Following the war, he returned to the reservation and began to paint in earnest. He specialized in subjects familiar to him in his daily life on the reservation. He has been eminently popular with collectors since the 1950s.