FOLKART GIRAFFE BY MAMIE DESCHILLE (NAVAJO)
$750.00
SKU
2131198340
CARDBOARD AND CLOTH FOLKART GIRAFFE BY MAMIE DESCHILLE (NAVAJO)
Mamie Deschillie was born in 1920 in Burnham, New Mexico. She had no formal education after 2nd grade and helped her family by herding the sheep and goats. She also learned to weave as a child. She did not start to make folk art until well after middle age, which has led some to refer to her as the Grandma Moses of Native American folk art. In the early 1980's a trader in Farmington, New Mexico named Jack Beasley asked Mamie to make something she remembered from childhood to trade. She brought in mud toys, handmade figures of mud and embellished with found objects that were dried in the sun and originally intended as play toys for children. The making of these types of toys had died out sometime in the 1940's. These objects launched her career. Later, she began working with cardboard and found objects to create her "cutouts". She cuts cardboard from old boxes into the shapes she wants then embellishes these figures with paper, paint, old clothing, fur, sequins, anything she finds that fits the piece. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, the Heard Museum and the Wheelwright museum. Her work was also selected for exhibition in Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965- 1985 sponsored by the American Federation of the Arts. She passed away in November 2010.
Measurements: 45" tall x 24" wide x 3" deep
This piece does not stand upright on it's own and would need to be mounted for display.
This is a consignment item and is not eligible for layaway.
Mamie Deschillie was born in 1920 in Burnham, New Mexico. She had no formal education after 2nd grade and helped her family by herding the sheep and goats. She also learned to weave as a child. She did not start to make folk art until well after middle age, which has led some to refer to her as the Grandma Moses of Native American folk art. In the early 1980's a trader in Farmington, New Mexico named Jack Beasley asked Mamie to make something she remembered from childhood to trade. She brought in mud toys, handmade figures of mud and embellished with found objects that were dried in the sun and originally intended as play toys for children. The making of these types of toys had died out sometime in the 1940's. These objects launched her career. Later, she began working with cardboard and found objects to create her "cutouts". She cuts cardboard from old boxes into the shapes she wants then embellishes these figures with paper, paint, old clothing, fur, sequins, anything she finds that fits the piece. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, the Heard Museum and the Wheelwright museum. Her work was also selected for exhibition in Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965- 1985 sponsored by the American Federation of the Arts. She passed away in November 2010.
Measurements: 45" tall x 24" wide x 3" deep
This piece does not stand upright on it's own and would need to be mounted for display.
This is a consignment item and is not eligible for layaway.