Untitled Tending the Flock
Robert Chee
- Item Purchased
- Savvy Price $850.00
- Gallery Price $1,000.00
- Title
- Untitled Tending the Flock
- Artist
- Robert Chee
- Medium
- Gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper board
- Sight size
- 15 1/4" height X 18 1/4" width
- Frame
- 2 non-archival window mats, non-glare glass, grey finished wood molding (frame, mats, glazing should be replaced)
- Frame size
- 22 3/4" height X 25 3/4" width
- Condition
- Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
- Provenance
- Yar
- About The Untitled Tending the Flock
Life on the Navajo reservation hinged on caring for their sheep and goats, which makes this painting an accurate representation of a Navajo genre scene.
No value was assigned to the painting's frame. Properly framed, this painting would carry a gallery price of $1,500 - $1,600.
- About Robert Chee
(1937-1972, Navajo) Robert Chee attended the Intermountain Indian School at Brigham City, Utah. He was a student of Allan Houser. His Indian name was Hashke-yil-e-dale.
Chee's preference for depicting people set him apart from many Navajo painters. He often painted them in clusters, as they functioned in social groups. His figures are portrayed with a sensitivity to the Navajo personality. Mark Bahti produced a coloring book in 1975 titled The Navajo, whereupon Chee's drawings represent the outlines to teach students about the Navajo people and their way of life. Chee won awards at Navajo Tribal Fairs, at the Philbrook Art Center in Oklahoma and at the Inter-Tribal Indian ceremonies.
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