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| The first Southwest Indian artist to have his work identified and published, Choh was a member of the Navaho tribe and lived in Fort Wingate, New Mexico. He was the nephew of Mariano, a Navajo chief.
Choh's talents were discovered in 1886 by Dr. Robert Shufeldt, a Smithsonian researcher, who was stationed at Fort Wingate. He observed Choh drawing animals and figures on paper in a trading store and thought the quality of his work much above that of other Indian artists he had observed. Shufeldt was especially impressed when he saw Choh drawing images from memory of railway locomotives and used one of these drawings to illustrate a Smithsonian Annual Report.
Source:
Patrick Lester, "The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters" |
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