Navajo Shepherd Boy
Fred Beaver
- Item Purchased
- Savvy Price $275.00
- Gallery Price $350.00
- Title
- Navajo Shepherd Boy
- Artist
- Fred Beaver
- Medium
- Gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper board
- Sight size
- 4 1/2" height X 9 1/2" width
- Frame
- Double non-archival window mat boards, non-glare glass, wood molding
- Frame size
- 11 1/2" height X 16 1/4" width
- Signed
- "Fred Beaver . 72" at viewer's lower right
- Date of creation
- 1972
- Condition
- Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
- Provenance
- Jo Re
- About The Navajo Shepherd Boy
Not everyone has major wall space to display paintings . . .
- About Fred Beaver
(1911-1980, Creek/ Seminole) Fred Beaver "Eka La Nee" (Brown Head) was a painter and a muralist, who graduated from Eufaula High School and attended Bacone College.
Under the Five Civilized Tribes Agency, he served as a clerk and interpreter. Beaver was honored with the Waite Phillips Outstanding Indian Artist Trophy. In 1979 he won the Wolf Robe Hunt award at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa during the 34th Annual American Indian Artists Exhibition.
He was best known for his portrayals of Creek and Seminole life. This artist was especially diligent about researching details and authentic costumes.
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