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Calvin Toddy
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Toddy's detailed treatment of figures and their mounts is in stark contrast with his nearly post impressionist handling of the foreground. Overhead there is a suggestion of ancestors watching what may be about to take place.
Savvy Price $2,800.00
Gallery Price $4,500.00
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| Description | Toddy's detailed treatment of figures and their mounts is in stark contrast with his nearly post impressionist handling of the foreground. Overhead there is a suggestion of ancestors watching what may be about to take place. |
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| About the Artist | (Born 1953, Navajo) Calvin Toddy is a son of Beatien Yazz (Jimmy Toddy), living on the Navajo Reservation in Chinle, Arizona. A silversmith as well as a painter and working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, silver and gemstone, Toddy has been a constant award winner at the Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial since 1985, selected as the poster artist for that organization in 1995. Toddy's magnificent miniature paintings can be about the size of a deck of playing cards. |
| Culture | USA, Navajo, Arizona |
| Style | Nostalgic American Indian |
| Medium | Gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper |
| Sight size | 27" height X 21 1/2" width |
| Frame | Two PH balanced mat boards, regular glass, rustic wood molding (custom) |
| Frame size | 40 1/4" height X 34 1/8" width |
| Signed | "C. Toddy" at viewer's lower right |
| Date of creation | Circa 1990 |
| Condition | Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed |
| Provenance | RF |
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is Corinne Cain, ASA
Phoenix, AZ
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