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Original oil on canvas

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Original oil on canvas
by Paladin Chethlahe.Image size is10X12. Depicting Kachina Spirits with a very blue background. Paladin Chethlahe is active/lives in United States. Paladin Chethlahe is known for Native American paintings. David Chethlahe Paladin [1926-1984] was born on the Navajo Reservation in 1926 at Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. He passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1984. He had served in the U. S. Army during WW II and was a prisoner of war for 2-1/2 years. He studied art at Santa Fe and at the California School of Fine Arts. He studied under Marc Chagall and Mark Tobey. "Paladin gave credit to the influence of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Marc Chagall for influencing him to abandon his early traditional style of painting and embark on a more contemporary style. While still a student, Paladin met Marc Chagall at an exhibition of the artist's work at the Chicago Art Institute. Chagall encouraged him to use his Navajo heritage but not to illustrate anything; instead he should listen to the story, dream it, and paint it. The influence of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, whom he met in Portland, Oregon, led him to experiment with texture, mixing clay, sand, and mud, and adding them to his paintings." Arizona Arts and Lifestyle, spring 1980.