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Birth
1932 (Canyon de Chelly, Arizona)
Death
2005 (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Lived/Active
New Mexico/Arizona / Mexico
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abstract female Indian figure painting, lithographs
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Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian.&n (showing 500 of 10239 characters). |
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