| A Navajo Indian artist born in the late 19th century, Apie Begay was
encouraged by Dr. Kenneth Chapman, who arrived in the Southwest in 1899
to help with the promotion of native arts. According to Jeanne
Snodgrass in her book American Indian Painters: In 1902,
Chapman "found the artist sitting on the floor of his hogan attempting
to reproduce sand painting designs in the only two colors he had: red
and black. When Dr. Chapman gave Begay a full box of crayons, he
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