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The Frollicking Navajo Girls

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Artist
Gerald Nailor Sr. (1917 – 1952, American)
Date
1951
Medium
watercolour; gouache on paper
Catalogue Number
NaG.07.01
Description
Three girls, smaller one in middle, dancing from right to left. They are all dressed similarly, tunic top, pleated skirt, leggings, and hair tied back into a bone shape. A grey sun symbol is in top middle of picture. Two mushrooms, three stones, two plants indicate ground line. The colours range fr…
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Artist
Gerald Nailor Sr. (1917 – 1952, American)
Title
The Frollicking Navajo Girls
Date
1951
Medium
watercolour; gouache on paper
Dimensions
43.3 x 35.7 cm
Description
Three girls, smaller one in middle, dancing from right to left. They are all dressed similarly, tunic top, pleated skirt, leggings, and hair tied back into a bone shape. A grey sun symbol is in top middle of picture. Two mushrooms, three stones, two plants indicate ground line. The colours range from grey, purple, mauve to light browns.
Subject
figure, female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
NaG.07.01
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Navajo Girl Riding to the Trading Post

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Artist
Harrison Begay (1917 – 2012, American)
Date
c. 1950
Medium
gouache on paper
Catalogue Number
BgH.07.01
Description
Painting shows Navajo girl wearing pleated skirt, colourful wrap, black hair on Appaloosa horse with colourful saddle blanket; only foreground is several desert elements; horse appears to be galloping.
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Artist
Harrison Begay (1917 – 2012, American)
Title
Navajo Girl Riding to the Trading Post
Date
c. 1950
Medium
gouache on paper
Dimensions
27.6 x 31.1 cm
Description
Painting shows Navajo girl wearing pleated skirt, colourful wrap, black hair on Appaloosa horse with colourful saddle blanket; only foreground is several desert elements; horse appears to be galloping.
Subject
figure, female
Indigenous
animal, horse
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
BgH.07.01
Images
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1970
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
StS.05.04
Description
Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right han…
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
To The Morning
Date
1970
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
27.8 x 35.5 cm
Description
Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right hand and wears a blue, red, green and white skirt. A smaller image of the woman and the dog are seen in the red oval which sits right of center on the red horizon line.Au verso: “TO THE MORNING”
Subject
figure, female
animal, dog
mythological
Credit
Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
StS.05.04
Images
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