Image of the Dreammaker Stopping Out the Artist's Sense of Reality

David Chethlahe Paladin

About The Image of the Dreammaker Stopping Out the Artist's Sense of Reality

This surrealistic depiction by David is beautifully carried out.

Your eyes moves from the open beak of the duck to the face in profile at center to the tiny turtle and on below down to the human figure atop of which this arrangement of overlapping critters is balanced.

About David Chethlahe Paladin

(1926-1984) Painting the Dream: the Visionary Art of Navajo Painter David Chethlahe Paladin was published in 1992 by the artist's widow, Lynda Paladin. This artist credited Marc Chagall, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves as influencing his approach to painting as well as how he treated his subject matter.

The Huichol Indians' work also impacted the appearance of his art. For 2 1/2 years Paladin was a prisoner of war, released finally at Dachau in a near coma state.

In 1975 Newsweek cited him as the nation's "leading Navajo modern artist". The Santa Fean magazine named him Artist of the Year in 1981.

Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth (1966), at the Heard Museum (1967, 1975), at the William Penn Memorial Museum in Pittsburgh (1969), at the Albuquerque Museum (1975, 1985), at the American Indian Art Center in New York (1975), at the Navajo Tribal Museum in Window Rock, Arizona (1984), at the San Diego Museum of Man (1985) and at the Museum of Art at the University of Arizona in Tucson (1988).

Other Works By David Chethlahe Paladin:

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Cultures

American Indian, Navajo

Medium

Prints

Subject

Birds, Reptiles, American Indians

Keywords

David Paladin, David Chethlahe Paladin, Chethlahe