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05-04-10 Where would you like to see the book being sold? Email us a list of all the specialty gift shops, trading posts, museums, book stores, art galleries, universities, etc., that you think might be interested and we'll make sure they're notified when the book is about to be released. 04-29-10 Thanks to all of you who have been so supportive and so patient while we researched and wrote Quincy Tahoma's biography. The manuscript and more than 200 color photographs of both private collectors' and museums' paintings have been submitted to the publisher. Halleluiah! 3-22-10 Check out the article by Joseph Smith about Quincy Tahoma in the February-March 2010 issue of Santa Fean Magazine. Searching for Tahoma
03-12-10 - We are delighted to tell you that Schiffer Publishing Ltd.. of Atglen, PA, will formally release our book in their Spring 2011 catalog. The working title is Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist. We'll let you know when the book is actually available, which may be in advance of the catalog.
Schiffer has published many books on Native American Art, but is the first time for a biography accompanied by many color images. Here we go pioneering again!
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Some owners of Tahoma’s paintings display their treasures.
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Native American Artist Quincy Tahoma, a highly gifted Navajo painter, studied at the Santa Fe Indian School along with other well-regarded Indian artists such as Harrison Begay and Andy Tsihnahjinnie. Art teacher Dorothy Dunn encouraged her students to paint in a flat and decorative style specific to early 20th-century, studio-taught painting, but Tahoma incorporated more action and varied techniques in his work. The artist spent most of his life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, producing hundreds of paintings over two decades from the mid 1930s to 1956. Due in large measure to his premature death, Tahoma's contribution to Native American art, as well as the triumphs and tragedies in his life, have remained somewhat invisible to the generations that followed.
The authors, Charnell Havens and Vera Marie Badertscher, have spent more than a decade researching his life in preparation to write a book-length biography. They are also compiling a registry of Tahoma's paintings in order to document the development of his artwork, much of which has never before been viewed by the public. This website, which already has been an invaluable source of input from Tahoma friends, serves three purposes: 1. To introduce Quincy Tahoma and his groundbreaking work, hopefully stimulating your desire to know more about him; 2. To tell you about the research project, sharing some of the special moments of our journey; and 3. To invite those with information about Quincy Tahoma to share it with us, thereby enriching our understanding of his life. Welcome to our Quincy Tahoma site! Charnell Havens and Vera Marie Badertscher |