A Gerald Nailor Sr. painting, "The Blue Corn Boy Chasing...

Gerald Nailor Sr.
Diné (Navajo), (1917-1952), "The Blue Corn Boy Chasing Hummingbirds Among the Corn," 1951, gouache on paper framed under glass, signed and dated lower right: Gerald Nailor, titled verso.
sight: height 15 1/8in, width 11 1/4in
Provenance
Property from a Southwestern Estate

See McLerran, Jennifer, "Dual Signification in Gerald Nailor's Navajo Nation Council Chamber Murals", American Indian Art Magazine, 2012, Volume 37, Number 4, pp.40–49. "Nailor employed similar references to the iconic significance of the cornstalk in Navajo culture in other paintings. Examples can be found in his watercolors The Yellow Corn Maiden's Prayer to the Dawn (1948, collection of the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, catalog C1860) and The Navajo Corn Maiden (1943, collection of the Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, OK, catalog 1995.7.79) in which the body of the Corn Maiden, an important figure from Navajo mythology, appears intertwined with and nearly indistinguishable from a traditionally rendered cornstalk." Ibid, p.48