Artist

Mamie Deschillie

born Burnham, Navajo Nation, NM 1920-died Farmington, NM 2010
Also known as
  • Mamie Bedon
Born
Burnham, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, United States
Died
Farmington, New Mexico, United States
Active in
  • Fruitland, New Mexico, United States
Biography

Mamie Deschillie is a sheep and goat herder who lives in "the Navajo way" and launched a late-life career as an artist. She is best known for cardboard cutouts of animals native to the American Southwest and others she has seen in circuses and children's books. Dangling earrings and furry cloth add notes of personal charm to the quizzical-looking Buffalo [SAAM,1997.124.60 ].

Lynda Hartigan Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999)

Works by this artist (8 items)

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Isaiah West Taber, Jicorillas Indian, Arizona, ca. 1875, albumen silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Richard A. Marksbury, 2009.35
Jicorillas Indian, Arizona
Artist
Dateca. 1875
albumen silver print
Not on view
Elias A. Bonine, Isaiah West Taber, Pimos Indians, Arizona, ca. 1875, albumen silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.29
Pimos Indians, Arizona
Artist
Dateca. 1875
albumen silver print
Not on view
Carleton E. Watkins, The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, California, 1861, printed after 1875, albumen silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.278
The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, California
Artist
Date1861, printed after 1875
albumen silver print
Not on view
Carleton E. Watkins, Isaiah West Taber, Half Dome, Yosemite, California, ca. 1870, printed ca. 1875, albumen silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.279
Half Dome, Yosemite, California
Artist
Dateca. 1870, printed ca. 1875
albumen silver print
Not on view