🔥 Fine Arizona Native American Navajo Landscape Oil Painting, REDWING NEZ For Sale

This is a stunningly beautifulFine Arizona Native American Navajo Tonalist Landscape Oil Paintingon canvas, depicting an expansive landscape scene, with rural Navajo homes, or hogans, inthe foreground. Up above is a gorgeous and vividly rendered sunset sky. Hues of purple, orange and gold permeate the cloud cover, creating a dreamlike and contemplative image. There is incredible detail packed into this small gem of a painting, and it is reflective of Redwing Nez\'s talent and prestige in the NativeAmerican art world. Signed: \"Redwing T. Nez\" in the lower left corner. Approximately 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 9 x 12 inches. Very good condition for age, with some lightscuffing and edge wear to the frame. This work likely dates to the late 1980s - early 1990\'s. Acquired from the deceased collection of a prominent Native American art collector in Orange County, California. Priced to sell. Nez\'s works are in the Gilcrease Museum of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in prominent art galleries across the Southwestern United States. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!
About the Artist:
Redwing NezBorn:1960Known for:Navajos and the SouthwestName variants:T Red Wing Nez
Biography from Bradford\'s sale Gallery
Redwing \"Ted\" Nez was born in 1960 and raised on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona. He was trained as a traditional sand painter and later attended the University of Northern Arizona.

Nez was profiled in the November 1994 issue ofSouthwest Artmagazine. He has exhibited and won awards in numerous shows in the Southwest, including at the Santa Fe Indian Market and at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Redwing Ted Nez was born in 1960 and raised on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona. He was trained as a traditional sandpainter and later attended the University of Northern Arizona.

Nez was profiled in the November 1994 issue ofSouthwest Artmagazine. He has exhibited and won awards in numerous shows in the Southwest, including at the Santa Fe Indian Market and at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Nez recently wrote and illustratedForofferden Talent, a children’s book about a young Navajo boy who loved to create art.

An accomplished muralist, Redwing Nez was commissioned to paint a 60 foot long mural gracing the wall along Centennial Walkway facing Flagstaff’s historic train station, below Route 66, where the Flagstaff Visitor Center is located.

Redwing Nez currently works out of his studio in the now-defunct Bita Hochee Trading Post, built around 1870 on the Navajo reservation.

Redwing Nez: A Diné Renaissance Man and Artist of Many Talents

By Tom Surface

Renowned artist, traditional Diné sandpainter, author, conservationist, and even movie actor, Redwing Ted Nez is an individual of many talents. An artist with wide-ranging skills and well known for his traditional paintings, murals and illustrations, he is also noted for his contemporary oil and acrylic paintings.

Born in 1960 and raised on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona, he trained as a traditional sandpainter. His paternal grandfather was a “healer” and as a 9-year-old, Redwing was called on to help with drawing sandpaintings on the ground for various traditional Diné ceremonies.

PAINTING FOR TRADING

It was the Bita Hochee Trading Post operator in the mid-1960s that set a very young Redwing on his path as an artist. “The trading post had a shiny toy pistol that I really wanted. So speaking in Navajo, the old trader offered to trade for the toy pistol if I made a weaving. I soon realized I could not weave, so I started drawing. The trader worked with me and suggested new colors and symbols,” he explained. The deal was finally made and he got his pistol.

But it was his maternal grandmother who opened his eyes to the beauty of painting and colors. “My grandma had a book of Renaissance artists and their colorful paintings. And our preacher also had a gold covered book with paintings that I would look at. I then went to work trying to match all those bright colors and skin tones using my crayons,” Redwing added.

Redwing notes that the first real promoter of his art was Joseph Pepe’ Masis, who came to this country as a student from Costa Rica. He later served in the U.S. military in Vietnam and worked for years with railroad company Conrail. Masis invested in railroad stock and later would come into Redwing’s studio and buy everything he had. “He did this for several years and sold my works to galleries and collectors,” said Redwing. “I was suddenly getting my work recognized both in the U.S. and even overseas.” Masis is also the person who first encouraged Redwing to save and revitalize the old Bita Hochee Trading Post.

Redwing and his works achieved widespread notoriety as the profiled artist in the November 1994 issue of Southwest Art Magazine, where the editors also took note of his emerging artistic career. His complex contemporary works draw from Redwing’s Diné (Navajo) heritage and include imagery and symbols such as birds and corn stalks, symbols of the four seasons, rainbows and lightening. In the visually striking canvasses, cornstalks frequently play a central role. “We worship white corn,” he explains; “morning corn, the corn of life. It’s a prayer, a chant.”

He has exhibited and won numerous awards in shows throughout the American Southwest, including at the prestigious Santa Fe Indian Market and at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He also is the author and illustrator of Forofferden Talent, a children’s book about a young Navajo boy who loved to create art. Oh yes, he also appeared as a Sioux warrior in 1990 classic film “Dances with Wolves.”

GROWING NOTORIETY

In the years since his profile in Southwest Art Magazine, Redwing has earned a number of major commissions including his work for Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Redwing was commissioned to paint “Dwellers of the First World,” a 52” x 48” oil on canvas painting depicting the Anasazi who lived in Mesa Verde circa 1200 A.D. This work now adorns the Visitors Center at the park. He was also selected to create a mural commemorating the 2012 State of Arizona Centennial. Nez was commissioned to paint the 60-foot long mural that now graces the wall along Centennial Walkway facing Flagstaff’s historic train station, on Route 66, where the Flagstaff Visitor Center is located.

In the project of selecting a Centennial artist for the significant and very public assignment, “Redwing’s submission was absolutely the very, very best,” said acclaimed Grand Canyon artist Bruce Aiken, who chaired the commission. “He’s a very accomplished muralist and a highly skilled painter, and we’re thrilled to have him as the centennial muralist for Flagstaff.” In the mural, the largest Nez had ever done, the cultural, historic and natural aspects of what it means for people living in Flagstaff are depicted. Next, Redwing plans to begin work on an initiative for the Gene Autry Museum of the American West in California. Redwing prefers the traditional painting designs and media as opposed to some of the more modern graffiti-style that is more in vogue today. “I want to enlighten people on our history, culture, and heritage,” he states.

Redwing Nez currently works out of his studio in the now-defunct Bita Hochee Trading Post, built around 1870 on the Navajo reservation. He knows intimately the red rocks and buttes that define this striking area. The once thriving center of so much social activity for the Diné was slated to have its neglected buildings razed but Redwing single-handedly stood off the bulldozers. It is his strongest desire that the buildings be restored and reborn as an artistic and cultural center that can, once again, become an integral part of life for the Diné people. Today, Redwing Nez’s works can be found in galleries throughout the Southwest.

Redwing Nez

Redwing T. Nez is renowned Dine’ (Navajo) Artist from the Navajo Nation, in Indian Wells, Arizona. Redwing is 60 years old with many honors received throughout his career in the art, illustration, and movie industry. He is a business owner and bilingual consultant and muralist.

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His recognitions are numerous, and include murals for the Grand Canyon Visitor Center, the Mesa Verde Visitor Center, the Flagstaff Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Phoenix Indian Center. He was commissioned to do art for use on the official invitations for the Native American Convention by the National Democratic Convention by the National Democratic Convention in 2004, by the Hon. Janet Napolitano, Chair.

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He holds many awards including Best of Show for SWAIA in the 1970’s and the Annual Navajo Show of the Museum of Northern Arizona. His art is also on display and can be seen at the Twin Arrows Navajo Casino and the Livermore Laboratory. He has most recently acted and appeared in the FX television series, Mayans, MC, Season 2, and has starred in the film, Dances with Wolves. Redwing has authored a children’s book, \"Forofferden Talent\", published by the Northland Publishing Company, Flagstaff, Arizona.

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Redwing is currently the Executive Director of the Non-Profit Organization, The Historic Bitahochee Trading Post in Indian Wells, Arizona