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Beatien Yazz | Paintings - Adobe Gallery, Santa Fe

Yazz, Beatien 1928-


PERSONAL: Original name, James Toddy; also known as Little No Shirt; born March 5, 1928, near Wide Ruins, AZ. Education: Attended Mills College, 1947, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Adobe Gallery, 413 Romero NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104.


CAREER: Painter and illustrator.

Worked as officer of the Navajo Police Department, Fort Defiance, AZ; art teacher at Indian school, Carson City, NV. Exhibitions: Held solo exhibitions at Southwest Museum, Heard Museum, La Jolla Gallery of Art, and Illinois State Museum; represented in group shows, including work at Mitchell Indian Museum, Amarillo Art Center, and Navajo Nation Museum; widely represented in permanent collections, including those at Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, U.S.

Department of the Interior, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Man, and National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Considerable Talent and Great Promise: the Early Years of ... ZUZ