Jimmie Jim Abeita Oil on canvas Painting Lady Nude Native American Navajo Indian

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Artist Bio:
Jim Abeita was born in 1947 in Crownpoint, NM, on the Navajo Reservation. Having been born and raised on the Navajo Reservation, he has exposed all his young life to the ways of Navajo families living and raising sheep in Canyon de Chelly, that marvelous beautiful canyon, sometimes called the Little Grand Canyon. His treatments of the landscape and the people of the canyon are unmistakably accurate. He is a true artist who paints what he sees, not what he would like to see.
He graduated from Gallup High School in 1966. He later studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, before returning to the Navajo Nation to paint full-time in the early1970s.
For the next two decades, Abeita won many awards including at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Indian Market in Santa Fe and the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico.
Abeita's art is distinctly distinguished by the accurate and meticulous rendering of detail.  He paints everything exactly as he sees it.  He paints the world of the Diné, their ways and places with a true sense of their identity.  No other Indian artist paints the Diné people,
His work has been featured in
Arizona Highways
,
Southwest Art
,
Arizona living
and
The Indian Trader
. A book of Jim Abeita’s paintings, entitled The American Indians of Abeita, His People was published in 1976 by Rick Tanner Publishing of Scottsdale. He was cited in Peggy and Harold Samuels’ book, Contemporary Western Artists as well as Clara Lee Tanner’s Southwest Indian Painting.
24" x 20" oil on canvas of nude seated woman, framed, signed
lower right and back "Nude” “Abeita” Signed J. Abeita, 20thC American,
Framed it measures 28 x 32
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