Sybil Yazzie

Sybil L. Yazzie (born 1919) was a Navajo painter active in the 1930s.

Yazzie was a pupil of Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School; while she was a student, in 1937, her painting A Crowd at a Navajo N'Da-a, in tempera on paper and dating to 1935, was exhibited in London and Paris. One critic said of it that it was "not naive and childish, but a finished work of art, expert in craftsmanship, intricate in detail, and unerring in color."[1] Her address was given in 1968 as the Garcia Store in Chinle, Arizona, but little else has been recorded of her career.[2] Yazzie's 1935 watercolor Navajo Weavers is owned by the Newark Museum.[1] A gouache from 1937, Yeibechai, is in the collection of the Smith College Museum of Art.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Patricia Janis Broder (10 December 2013). Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. St. Martin's Press. pp. 384–. ISBN 978-1-4668-5972-2.
  2. ↑ "Full text of "American Indian painters; a biographical directory"". archive.org. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Collections Database". museums.fivecolleges.edu. Retrieved 29 June 2017.


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