Navajo+Man

Date: ca. 1960
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1997/1997.124.96_2a.jpg?itok=Ew06utCr width="238" height="373" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/navajo-man-36187"]] || Title: **Navajo Man**

Artist: **Charlie Willeto** Born: Nageezi, New Mexico 1900 Died: Nageezi, New Mexico 1965

Medium: house paint on carved pine Dimensions: 29 1/4 x 5 x 4 in. (74.3 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 1997.124.96 || Date: ca. 1960
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1997/1997.124.97_2a.jpg?itok=Fka_m68O width="236" height="351" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/navajo-man-36188"]] || Title: **Navajo Man**

Artist: **Charlie Willeto** Born: Nageezi, New Mexico 1900 Died: Nageezi, New Mexico 1965

Medium: house paint on carved pine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dimensions: 27 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 4 in. (70.8 x 14.0 x 10.2 cm.) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Smithsonian American Art Museum <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Accession: 1997.124.97 ||

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Charlie Willeto carved sculptures from old boards of sun-weathered pine and exchanged them for groceries at a trading post near his home (Charles Rosenak, Folk Art of the People: Navajo Works, 1987). His wife, Elizabeth, helped him paint these figures to show traditional Navajo clothing and jewelry. The simple shapes and muted colors of the figures reflect the bleak environment around his home in Nageezi, New Mexico.


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