Sybil Yazzie

Sybil Lansing Yazzie Baldwin (May 14, 1916 – November 25, 2002)[1]: 140  was a Diné (Navajo) painter active in the 1930s.

Sybil Lansing Yazzie Baldwin
Born(1916-05-14)May 14, 1916
Chinle, Arizona
DiedNovember 25, 2002(2002-11-25) (aged 86)
NationalityDiné (Navajo)

About

Yazzie was a pupil of Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS), considered the birthplace of contemporary Native American easel painting.[2] In annual student exhibitions of 1935, 1936, and 1937 at SFIS, critics such as Olive Rush and Frederic Douglas described Yazzie's work as "sensitive" and "outstanding", and showing "a miniature style of great beauty".[1]: 142  While she was still a student at SFIS in 1937, her 1935 work A Crowd at a Navajo N'Da-a in tempera on paper, was exhibited in London and Paris. One critic said that it was "not naive and childish, but a finished work of art, expert in craftsmanship, intricate in detail, and unerring in color."[3] Yazzie's work was also exhibited at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1970 and at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in 2009–10.[4][5] Her address was given in 1968 as the Garcia Store in Chinle, Arizona, but little has been recorded of her career after leaving the SFIS.[6] Yazzie's 1935 watercolor Navajo Weavers is owned by the Newark Museum.[3] A gouache from 1937, Yeibechai, is in the collection of the Smith College Museum of Art.[7]

Yazzie died on November 25, 2002, aged 86.[8]

References
  1. Krch, Pamela Kay (2016). Cultural Sovereignty and Cultural Violence: Native American Artists and the Dunn Studio, 1932–1962 (PhD). The University of Texas at El Paso. ProQuest 1803609695.
  2. McKenna, Arin (May 17, 2009). "Culture Center; City Museum Enrich, Enlighten and Entertain". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  3. Patricia Janis Broder (2013). Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. St. Martin's Press. pp. 384–. ISBN 978-1-4668-5972-2.
  4. "Indian artists in Flagstaff exhibit". No. 96. Gannett Co., Inc. August 20, 1970. ProQuest 1929631064.
  5. "Through Their Eyes: Paintings from the Santa Fe Indian School". wheelwright.org. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  6. "Full text of "American Indian painters; a biographical directory"". archive.org. 1968. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  7. "Collections Database". museums.fivecolleges.edu. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  8. "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007". Ancestry. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
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