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1921 Tuba City, Arizona - 1956 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for: Indian genre painting, symbolism.
Quincy Tahoma was a Navajo painter and muralist. He was born near Tuba City, Arizona and given the name Tahoma, which in Navajo means "Water Edge". Early in his career, his paintings were serene and... Read full biography
Quincy Tahoma was a Navajo painter and muralist. He was born near Tuba City, Arizona and given the name Tahoma, which in Navajo means "Water Edge". Early in his career, his paintings were serene and soothing in tone, but increasingly they had subject matter of bloody wars and men killing animals.... Read full biography
Quincy Tahoma was a Navajo painter and muralist. He was born near Tuba City, Arizona and given the name Tahoma, which in Navajo means "Water Edge". Early in his career, his paintings were serene and soothing in tone, but increasingly they had subject matter of bloody wars and men killing animals. He attended the Albuquerque Indian School from 1936 to 1940, and did post- graduate work at the Santa Fe Indian School where he developed his unique painting style with pastoral landscapes. He worked a... Read full biography
Quincy Tahoma was a Navajo painter and muralist. He was born near Tuba City, Arizona and given the name Tahoma, which in Navajo means "Water Edge". Early in his career, his paintings were serene and soothing in tone, but increasingly they had subject matter of bloody wars and men killing animals. He attended the Albuquerque Indian School from 1936 to 1940, and did post- graduate work at the Santa Fe Indian School where he developed his unique painting style with pastoral landscapes. He worked a short time as a painter in Hollywood movie studios. As a full-time artist, he set up his studio in Santa Fe, but he died at age 35, a life shortened by alcoholism and the accusation that he raped a white woman. His paintings have a special... Read full biography
Quincy Tahoma was a Navajo painter and muralist. He was born near Tuba City, Arizona and given the name Tahoma, which in Navajo means "Water Edge". Early in his career, his paintings were serene and soothing in tone, but increasingly they had subject matter of bloody wars and men killing animals. He attended the Albuquerque Indian School from 1936 to 1940, and did post- graduate work at the Santa Fe Indian School where he developed his unique painting style with pastoral landscapes. He worked a short time as a painter in Hollywood movie studios. As a full-time artist, he set up his studio in Santa Fe, but he died at age 35, a life shortened by alcoholism and the accusation that he raped a white woman. His paintings have a special "signature" that shows the "end" of that particular painting--i.e., a painting of a young girl standing by a horse might... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesModern by Tradition American Indian Painting in the Studio Style
1995Bernstein, Bruce/W J Rushing166 pages (color)Native American Painters of the Twentieth Century
1995Henkes, Robert219 pages (color)The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993Eitner, Lorenz (others)418 pages (color)Shared Visions Native American Painters & Sculptors
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Archuleta, M/R R Strickland110 pages (color)Philbrook Museum of Art Handbook to the Collections
1991Philbrook Museum of Art250 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesNavajo Painting Plateau/No 54
1982Chase, Katherin L32 pages (color)Native American Painting Selections/Museum of American Indian
1982Fawcett, David/C A Callander95 pages (color)Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art
1980Tanner, Clara Lee477 pages (color)American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within
1976Bader, Barbara615 pages (color)Song from the Earth American Indian Painting
1976Highwater, Jamake212 pages (color)The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesHandbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art192 pages (color)Indian Painters and White Patrons
1971Brody, J J238 pages (color)American Indian Painting of the Southwest and Plains Areas
1968Dunn, Dorothy429 pages (color)American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory
1968Snodgrass, Jeanne O.269 pagesRead Mullan Gallery of Western Art
1964
(Exhibition catalog)Read Mullan Gallery40 pages (color)Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art
1957Tanner, Clara Lee157 pages (color)