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Navajo Shepherd by Emery Donaldson Horsky
Photo CreditDon Douglass
Navajo Shepherd
Photo CreditDon Douglass

Navajo Shepherd

Artist
Year1941
Classification painting
Dimensions5' x 7'
Credits WPA, Federal Art Project, 1935 - 1943
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • The painting depicts a distant mountain range in the American Southwest. Executed in deeply saturated pastel shades, the painting shows a seated man in front of a white horse, looking out over the landscape of low mesas and little vegetation to the distant mountains.