Painting is signed and titled on verso.
Holgate refers to himself as a "Navaho artist from Navaho Mtn, Utah--now lives in Taos, N.M. with his family".
Description | Painting is signed and titled on verso. Holgate refers to himself as a "Navaho artist from Navaho Mtn, Utah--now lives in Taos, N.M. with his family". |
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About the Artist | Eugene Holgate Jr. was born in 1938 in Utah and died in 2001. He received his education on the Navajo Nation and at Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona. A painter and a jeweler, his primary mediums have been watercolor, gouache, silver and gemstones. He won awards at the Arizona State Fair, the Navajo Tribal Fair, the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Holgate is cited in Southwest Indian Painting by Clara Lee Tanner and The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters by Patrick D. Lester. |
Culture | American Indian, Navajo |
Style | Nostalgic American Indian |
Medium | Gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper board (mat board) |
Sight size | 13 1/2" height X 19" width |
Frame | Two non-archival window mats, regular glass, stained wood molding (frame not worthy of this painting) |
Frame size | 20" height X 25 1/2" width |
Signed | "JE Holgate" at viewer's lower right |
Date of creation | 1985 |
Condition | Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed |
Provenance | Da Mar-7 |