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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
Quincy Tahoma - Artist Info
About Quincy Tahoma: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (7)
All MuseumsCantor Arts Center, Stanford
Lomita Drive/Museum Way
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA 94305National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
4th Street & Independence Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20560New Mexico Museum of Art
113 Lincoln Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101The Philbrook Museum of Art
2727 South Rockford Road
P.O. Box 52510
Tulsa, OK 74152-0510University of Wyoming Art Museum
Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071