Artist

Myra Tso Kaye

born Tuba City, AZ 1961
Media - kaye_myra_tso.jpg - 90043
Originally photographed by Chuck Rosenak. Image is courtesy of the Chuck and Jan Rosenak research material, 1990-1999, in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Also known as
  • Myra Kaye
  • Myra Tso
Born
Tuba City, Arizona, United States
Active in
  • Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Biography

Navajo artist Myra Tso Kaye studied art at the University of Northern Arizona, but feels that school only taught her the "scientific" side of her artwork. Kaye believes that the spiritual side came from her home and family: Her grandfather was a medicine man, as are her father and brother; her mother, Faye Tso, is a potter and herbalist. (Chuck and Jan Rosenak, The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art, 1994)

Works by this artist (2 items)

Myra Tso Kaye, Bean Pot with Ear of Corn Appliqué, 1988, fired clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, 1997.124.158
Bean Pot with Ear of Corn Appliqué
Artist
Date1988
fired clay with piñon pitch
On view
Myra Tso Kaye, Ram Pot, 1992, fired clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, 1997.124.157
Ram Pot
Artist
Date1992
fired clay with piñon pitch
Not on view