Original watercolor of a Navajo / Dine’ Yei Bi Chei (Yébîchai) scene By Nils Richard Alexander Hogner (1887 – 1970)

Original watercolor of a Navajo / Dine’ Yei Bi Chei (Yébîchai) scene By Nils Richard Alexander Hogner (1887 – 1970)

This is a very nice original watercolor painting by Nils Richard Alexander Hogner (1887 – 1970). The scene depicts Diné, / Navajo Yei Bi Chei with some people watching from behind.

Nils Hogner became a painter of murals and portraits, a printmaker, and illustrator of children’s books. In the 1920s and early ’30s, he ran the Klagetoh Trading Post in Arizona.  He married a Navajo woman, painted and traveled in Arizona and New Mexico, and in 1930 won a prize in an exhibition at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.   He also exhibited work at the Albuquerque Museum.