This impressive painting comes with two major ribbons it won from the Navajo Nation Fair one for Best of Show, The President's Award Honorable Peterson Zahdated September 1992. The second ribbon was for the oil painting division, a First Place, at the same Fair at the same time.
Description | This impressive painting comes with two major ribbons it won from the Navajo Nation Fair one for Best of Show, The President's Award Honorable Peterson Zahdated September 1992. The second ribbon was for the oil painting division, a First Place, at the same Fair at the same time. |
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About the Artist | (Born 1951) The son of noted Navajo artist, Beatien Yazz, Irving Toddy is many faceted, working in acrylic, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, pen and ink and conte crayon. Toddy was educated at the Intermountain High School in Brigham City, Utah and Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Exhibitions of his work have taken place at Woodards Indian Arts, Indian Ceremonials in both Gallup and Santa Fe, the 12th Annual Red Cloud Indian Art Show in South Dakota and the Heard Museum Guild Arts and Crafts Show, where he was awarded honorable mention. Three books on Navajo life and culture are illustrated with Toddy's work, Cheyenne Again, D is For Drum and Desert Digits. |
Culture | American Indian, Navajo |
Style | Representational |
Medium | Oil on panel |
Sight size | 23 1/2" height X 23 1/2" width |
Frame | Linen-wrapped liner, dark stained wood |
Frame size | 28 1/2" height X 28 1/2" width |
Signed | "Irving Toddy '92" at viewer's lower left |
Date of creation | 1992 |
Condition | Excellent, as appeared framed |
Provenance | Pa Ste |