Tony Abeyta, Four Directional Figures
Tony Abeyta
Diné (Navajo), b. 1965
Four Directional Figures
mixed media on canvas
signed lower right: Tony Abeyta ©
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm.), frame: 65 3/4 x 53 1/2 in. (167 x 135.9 cm.)
Lanning Gallery, Sedona, Arizona, 2014
Private Collection, Arizona
Exhibited:
Tony Abeyta: Convergence - Tradition & Transition, Museum of Northern Arizona, June 18 - September 4, 2017
Tony Abeyta is a contemporary painter known for mixed-media works and Southwestern landscapes that weave ancestral Navajo iconography into a visual language informed by American Modernism. He earned an A.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is also a graduate of New York University, later receiving an honorary doctorate from IAIA. Abeyta received the 2012 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and has been recognized as a “Native Treasure” by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
Condition
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Tony Abeyta
Diné (Navajo), b. 1965
Four Directional Figures
mixed media on canvas
signed lower right: Tony Abeyta ©
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm.), frame: 65 3/4 x 53 1/2 in. (167 x 135.9 cm.)
Lanning Gallery, Sedona, Arizona, 2014
Private Collection, Arizona
Exhibited:
Tony Abeyta: Convergence - Tradition & Transition, Museum of Northern Arizona, June 18 - September 4, 2017
Tony Abeyta is a contemporary painter known for mixed-media works and Southwestern landscapes that weave ancestral Navajo iconography into a visual language informed by American Modernism. He earned an A.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is also a graduate of New York University, later receiving an honorary doctorate from IAIA. Abeyta received the 2012 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and has been recognized as a “Native Treasure” by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
Condition
A condition report for this lot is available upon request (please include the lot number in your request) and is provided by Santa Fe Art Auction as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers.
