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Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Art of a Navajo Artist

Announcing the hard-won publication of our book on gifted Navajo artist Quincy Tahoma, by Charnell Havens and yours truly, Vera Marie Badertscher. Release date: Spring 2011.

You can read more about Quincy Tahoma and our research for the book, which is a story in itself, at Tahoma.Info and the Tahoma Blog.

Briefly, Tahoma (1918 - 1956) was born on the Navajo Indian Reservation, near Tuba City, Arizona, but was raised at the Santa Fe Indian School. Art teacher Dorothy Dunn encouraged his talent, but in the more decorative style of early 20th C studio-taught painting. Tahoma would produce hundreds of paintings over the course of his life that expressed his own unique vision, of the Southwest and Navajo and other Native American imagery. He continued to live in Santa Fe most of his adult life, and produced hundreds of paintings, but died young, leaving behind a trail of mystery about his life.

Tahoma.Info

Tahoma Blog
Artist Quincy Tahoma
 

About the authors

Charnell Havens is a retired business executive, an expert in knowledge management, who has developed a second career as a REALTOR®. Long intrigued by Quincy Tahoma’s paintings and curious about his life, she began in 1996 to probe into details of his development as an artist, hoping some day to write his biography. The idea for the book evolved from her curiosity about several paintings that she inherited. Charnell’s skill with photography has made her the official photographer for the biography of Tahoma.

When Vera Marie Badertscher, a friend from the Ohio State University college days, interviewed Havens for an alumna magazine, Havens asked the writer if she would be interested in joining a project to re-discover the life of Quincy Tahoma and share it through a published biography. Badertscher is a freelance writer who specializes in travel and the Southwestern United States and blogs about travel and books. A resident of Arizona since 1963, she was a member of the committee that presented the Scottsdale National Indian Art Exhibition in the 1960s and ’70s, and has a deep interest in American Indian art.
 
 

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