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Gerald Nailor Sr.
Gerald Nailor Sr. (or Toh Yah (); January 21, 1917 – August 13, 1952) was a Navajo Studio painter from Picurís, New Mexico. Beginning in 1942, he was commissioned to paint the history of the Navajo people for a large mural at the Navajo Nation Council Chamber, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Background Gerald Nailor was born in 1917 in Pinedale, New Mexico. His Navajo name is Toh Yah (Walking By the River). He attended the Albuquerque Indian School from 1930 to 1934. He then attended the Santa Fe Indian School, where he studied art under Dorothy Dunn from 1935 to 1937. After working under Dunn, Nailor spent a year studying with Kenneth M. Chapman and the Swedish muralist Olle Nordmark. Marriage and family Nailor met his future wife, Santana Simbola, who was working as a nurse at the Santa Fe Indian Hospital. Upon marrying, they relocated to Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico, where they reared their five children. Their son Gerald Nailor Jr. also became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinedale, New Mexico
Pinedale (also spelled Pine Dale) () is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 485. Geography Pinedale is in west-central McKinley County, by road northeast of Church Rock and northeast of Gallup, the county seat. It is served by Navajo Route 11. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Pinedale CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.06%, are water. The community sits at the northern base of Fallen Timber Ridge and is drained by tributaries of the Puerco River, which flows westward through the northern part of the CDP, leading eventually to Gallup and thence to the Little Colorado River in Arizona. Demographics Pinedale was first listed as a census-designated place prior to the 2020 census. Notable people Paddy Martinez, the Navajo man who discovered high-grade uranium ore that initiated the Grants, New Mexico, uranium mining boom, was born in Pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Section Of Painting And Sculpture
Section, Sectioning, or Sectioned may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea * Section (typography), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents ** Section sign (§), typographical characters * Section (bookbinding), a group of sheets, folded in the middle, bound into the binding together * The Section (band), a 1970s American instrumental rock band * ''The Outpost'' (1995 film), also known as ''The Section'' * Section, an instrumental group within an orchestra * "Section", a song by 2 Chainz from the 2016 album '' ColleGrove'' * "Sectioning" (''Peep Show''), a 2005 television episode * David "Section" Mason, a fictional character in '' Call of Duty: Black Ops II'' Organisations * Section (Alpine club) * Section (military unit) * Section (Scouting) Science, technology and mathematics Science * Section (archaeology), a view in part of the archaeological sequence showing it in the ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millicent Rogers Museum
The Millicent Rogers Museum is an art museum in Taos, New Mexico, founded in 1956 by the family of Millicent Rogers. Initially the artworks were from the multi-cultural collections of Millicent Rogers and her mother, Mary B. Rogers, who donated many of the first pieces of Taos Pueblo art. In the 1980s, the museum was the first cultural center, cultural organization in New Mexico to offer a comprehensive collection of Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic art. History In 1947, Millicent Rogers, granddaughter of one of the original founders of Standard Oil and a talented designer and patronage, patron of the arts, moved to Taos, NM. A passionate collecting, collector, her collection of Native Americans of the United States, Native American Jewellery, jewelry and fiber arts, weavings is an important part of Southwestern United States, Southwestern arts and design. Rogers died of an enlarged heart when she was 50 in 1952 in Taos, New Mexico. The museum was first opened in a tem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philbrook Museum Of Art
Philbrook Museum of Art is an art museum with expansive formal gardens located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The museum, which opened in 1939, is located in a former 1920s villa, "Villa Philbrook", the home of Oklahoma oil pioneer Waite Phillips and his wife Genevieve. Showcasing nine collections of art from all over the world, and spanning various artistic media and styles, the cornerstone collection focuses on Native American art featuring basketry, pottery, paintings and jewelry. History The Philbrook Art Museum, under the guidance of its first director, Eugene Kingman, opened its doors to the public on October 25, 1939 with a permanent art collection made up of works from the Tulsa Art Association and Villa Philbrook. In 1940, studio art classes were initiated and a touring program for school children the following year that resulted in the addition of a Children's Museum in 1949. A new museum wing was built in 1969 in response to an increased demand for studio art classes, but the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of The American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, is a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Manhattan, New York City. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The center features contemporary and historical exhibits of art and artifacts by and about Native Americans. The center has its origin in the ''Museum of the American Indian'' founded by George Heye in 1916. It became part of the national museum and Smithsonian in 1987. History The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903. He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. Frederick J. Dockstader was director of the Museum from 1960 to 1976. By early 1987, U.S. senator Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Northern Arizona
The Museum of Northern Arizona is a museum in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, established as a repository for Indigenous material and natural history specimens from the Colorado Plateau. The museum was founded in 1928 by zoologist Dr. Harold S. Colton and artist Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to preserving the history and cultures of northern Arizona and the Colorado Plateau. The museum has a cultural and research center, the Colton House, located outside of Flagstaff and is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program. History Harold Sellers Colton a zoology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton moved to Flagstaff in 1926, helping found the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1928. Harold became director and Marry-Russell became curator of art and ethnology. In 1930, Katharine Bartlett, a physical anthropologist from Denver, became curator and would remain so for the next 51 y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
