Young Navajo Girls and their Pet Horses
Artist
Harrison Begay
(1914 or 1917 White Cone, Arizona - 2012 Gilbert, Arizona)
Datesecond half of the 20th century
Mediumgouache on paper
Dimensionsframe: 24 1/2 × 28 × 1 1/2 in. (62.2 × 71.1 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings, Pastels & Watercolors
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Cate Stetson
Object numberPC2022.57.1
DescriptionA gouache painting of two girls riding a blue horse under a rainbow. The taller girl, who holds the horse’s reins, wears a blue collared shirt, a coral skirt, and brown shoes. The smaller girl sits behind the first and wears a green collared shirt, a blue skirt, and brown shoes. A small horse and a dog run beside the blue horse. The figures and animals move towards the left in a landscape filled with desert grasses. Above the figures are a small bird and a cloud beneath two rainclouds, which are connected by a rainbow.On View
Not on view
ca. 1910
