BEATIEN YAZZ - ORIGINAL NAVAJO PAINTING – Artist Hand Signed

Description

Jimmy Toddy (Beatien Yazz),
United States – Navajo Nation
(
1928 - 2012)
Indian Name: Beatien Yazz (Little No Shirt)
Original Painting on paper,
Hand Signed
by the Artist on the lower Right in Black Pen.
Name:
Unknown
DETAILS:
Medium
Original
Gouache
Painting on Paper
Dimensions
21”H × 28” W
Size
19 1/2”H × 26 1/2” W
Image
Condition Notes
Mint Condition
About the Artist:
Beatien Yazz,
Little No Shirt
(Jimmy Toddy)
was born in 1928 on the Navajo Reservation. Yazz showed promise very early as an artist. 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.
At twelve years old, Yazz had his first sales, exhibiting his paintings.  He received approximately for the sale of twenty paintings.  The following year, Yazz had a solo exhibition in November at the Art Center in La Jolla, California.  Both the
Los Angeles Times
and the
San Diego Union
wrote articles touting the thirteen-year-old artist’s work
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.
Beatien’s works of art usually are casein on matboard, occasionally combining pen and ink with oils. Nationally known for his illustrations for children's books, Yazz is cited in Dorothy Dunn's book
American Indian Painting
, in Clara Lee Tanner's
Southwest Indian Painting
and in the
Biographical Directory of Native American Painters
by Patrick Lester.
This artist's work is included in the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Denver Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Southwest Museum of Los Angeles, California to name a few.
Yazz Navajo Painter
by Sallie R. Wagner, J.J. Brody, and Beatien Yazz was published in 1983 by Northland Press.
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