Emmi Whitehorse Native American Indian Drawing

17" by 13 1/8" in matte. Emmi Whitehorse (Born 1956) is active/lives in New Mexico, Connecticut. Emmi Whitehorse is known for Mixed-media Native American abstract images. Born in Crownpoint, New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation, Emmi Whitehorse attended a government boarding school and showed an early fascination for drawing horses. As a professional artist, she is known for her serene, dream-like abstract images, often with symbolic meaning of her culture. Many of these images suggest plant forms or animals. Her mentors include her grandmother and her junior high art teacher, Kathleen Hueser, as well as Harmony Hammond at the University of New Mexico. From Hammond, she learned to free herself from from traditional methods and to work on large surfaces or grounds rather than smaller, more constraining ones. Allard Auction Collection Inv: NO TAG