This guitar strumming Koshare figure is serenading the moon and SHE is swooning up above. The setting is strictly southwestern with a sahuaro and prickly pear cacti beside him.
A pair of brown mice are dancing below at viewer's lower right.
Description | This guitar strumming Koshare figure is serenading the moon and SHE is swooning up above. The setting is strictly southwestern with a sahuaro and prickly pear cacti beside him. A pair of brown mice are dancing below at viewer's lower right. |
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About the Artist | (Born 1959, Navajo) Bahe's painting was chosen for the 1993 Poster for the Coconino Center for the Arts. He won an honorable mention at the Navajo Show at the Museum of Northern Arizona the same year. For several years he participated in the Festival of Native American Arts Outdoor Market. Bahe has also shown his paintings at Pueblo Grande Festival (1993), Litchfield Park Festival (1994) and at Legends of the West (1994). In recent years Bahe has participated in the Heard Museum's Indian Market held in March annually. His paintings are also marketed through the Heard Museum's shop throughout the year. |
Medium | Acrylic on paper board |
Sight size | 23 3/4" height X 17 3/4" width |
Frame | Two alpha mat boards, Plexiglas, black metal sectional molding |
Frame size | 32 1/4" height X 26 1/4" width |
Signed | "Bahe" at viewer's lower left |
Date of creation | Early 1980's |
Condition | Excellent (art). Minor scratches on Plexiglas. |
Provenance | BrBr, Arizona art collector |