Tlizzy-Thlanny, Portrait of an Older Navajo Man by Carl Moon

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair, wearing a red headscarf with yellow dots and a blanket woven with geometric bands of cream, rust, and blue. He turns his head to the right against a warm olive background, with his name inscribed at upper right and the artist's signature at lower right.

Artist

Carl Moon

Date

ca. 1937-1943

Medium

oil on canvas

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2279 × 2880 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum