Untitled

Larry Waldo Emerson

Untitled , Paintings by Larry Waldo Emerson
  • Emerson painting
  • Navajo painting
Savvy Price $3,500.00
Gallery Price $5,500.00
Title
Untitled
Artist
Larry Waldo Emerson
Medium
Acrylic on paper
Sight size
47" height X 34 3/4" width
Frame
Hand-wrapped fabric liner, Plexiglas, smoked metal sectional molding
Frame size
52 1/4" height X 40 1/4" width
Signed
"L.W. Emerson 80" at viewer's lower right
Date of creation
1980
Condition
Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
Provenance
APF
About The Untitled

A distinctly strong image by Larry Emerson, a culturally-devoted individual.

About Larry Waldo Emerson
(1947-2017, Navajo)  Formerly the Director of the Shiprock Alternative School in New Mexico, Larry Emerson was represented by the Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art in Seattle, Washington.  

Emerson studied at the Navajo Community College (1970-1972), then earned a degree in History and English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.  He also earned a PhD. at San Diego State University.   At the time of his death Emerson was collaborating with Dine college faculty member Herbert Benally on topics related to Navajo philosophy and healing.
 
His bold painterly images are generated from his Navajo life at Shiprock.  "These paintings were inspired by the mystery behind the dancers of the Southwest.  They are images out of the past--images still real today in Indian life" according to Mr. Emerson.

Emerson's work had been viewed at the Wheelwright Museum in New Mexico, the Heard Museum in Phoenix and the Native American Center for Living Arts in New York.


Cultures

American Indian, Navajo

Medium

Paintings

Subject

Contemporary

Keywords

Larry Emerson, Emerson painting, Navajo painting