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Grand Canyon / Tony Abeyta / 2016 / Acrylic on linen, 60" x 157 ½.
Currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.
Like the canyon itself, this mural is so big it feels like it can’t be taken in all at once. Writing about his mural paintings, Abeyta has said, “Scale can change the way we as artists communicate our ideas. I love to work large with a freedom that challenges me to see my own ideas explode on a wall or canvas, and I believe there is a newfound relationship to context and to community. Through its very process, a mural must be deliberate and command attention that a smaller work doesn’t seem as likely to address.”
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The White Painting / George Morrison / 1971 / Acrylic on canvas.
Currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.
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Buffalo Dance / Charles Loloma / ca. 1940 / Tempera on muslin.
This near life-sized mural was created for Hopi High School in the Hopi village of Oraibi. The second figure from the right is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist. The mural is currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.
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#513 Untitled / Emmi Whitehorse / 1985 / Mixed media on canvas.
Currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.
Artist statement from the museum’s didactic panel: “I want to make use of the abstractions I remember, use them aesthetically to help me create my work. This way, I’m closer to building that bridge between not only the new and the old – but also between the two cultures in which I live.”
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American Portrait as a Buffalo Dancer / Fritz Scholder / 1975 / Oil on canvas.
Currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.
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Moab Bound / Shonto Begay / 2011 / Acrylic on canvas, 41 ½" x 72 ¼".
Currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.
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