Original Multi-Media Portrait by Clifford Beck

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An original multi-media portrait is by listed Southwestern artist Clifford Beck. The portrait is of a Native American with facial paint, sad eyes, and a somber expression. The palette is shade of red, brown, black, gray, and white. The portrait is signed to lower right. It is double matted and framed under glass in a metal silver toned frame.
Navajo Artist Clifford Beck (1946-1995) of Scottsdale Arizona, was well known for his magnificent gestural paintings of Native Americans; he has had works exhibited nationally at the Smithsonian Institute, the Heard Museum, the museum of Northern Arizona, and has been featured in Southwest Art magazine and other publications. In a biography from the Southwest Graphics Collection, he was quoted as saying ’ Each face reveals a story…I analyze faces like a historian analyzes the details of mankind’s written history.’

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15CIN178-317