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Painting ''Prayer For All Armed Forces'' F Cleveland

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Painting ''Prayer For All Armed Forces'' F Cleveland
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Painting ''Prayer For All Armed Forces'' Fred Cleveland. Mystical painting by Fred Cleveland. It is on artist's paper and is signed in the lower right corner and also on the back, where the title is given. It measures 28''H x 22''W. Born in 1943 and now deceased, he is a Navajo artist who was raised in a Hogan in the rugged high Desert Mountains near Ganado, AZ where his family raised sheep. Fred Cleveland has won numerous awards for his work. Nearly every year since 1978 he has placed either 1st or 2nd at the New Mexico State Fair. Fred has also won numerous 1st and 2nd place awards since 1969 from Heard Museum and the Philbrook Museum of Indian Art competitions. In 1972 Fred won the Grand Award in Art at the Navajo Tribal Fair, an award that he prizes more than most. A member of the Bitter Water and Kayonnie clans of the Navajo, Fred Cleveland says he was born at “one of the first Indian hospitals – a Hogan”. Raised in the rugged high desert mountains near Ganado, Arizona, his family raised sheep, where Fred was exposed to the arts as a young boy watching his mother weave rugs and his father create images in the curative process of traditional Navajo sand paintings. For as long as he can remember, Fred as been a painter, and largely self-taught, although he spent valued learning time crafting the basics of his “Native American Western” style at The American Academy of the Arts in Chicago.