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David Paladin

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David Chetlahe Paladin (1926 - 1984) was active/lived in Arizona, New Mexico.  David Paladin is known for Abstract, Native American and non-objective painting, symbolism.

Growing up wasn't easy for David Paladin, born 1926. He wasn't white and he wasn't red; he was a half-breed, something that was looked down upon in the 1930's.

He was the son of a Navajo Indian mother and a white missionary father, spending his early years on the Navajo reservation near Chinle, Arizona.

Friends were hard to come by when the teachers at missionary schools and the Santa Fe Indian School held him up as an example because he was light-skinned. But Joe Wilson, a full-blooded Navajo cousin liked him. "It's what's inside you that counts. It's not whether you're Indian or white," Joe counseled.

An incorrigible runaway, a stowaway, a secret agent, a WW II prison camp survivor, Paladin's life story sounds more like fiction than fact. Later associations with indigenous peoples led to his education as a shaman by the Huichols and Tarahumaras of Mexico, the Northwest Coastal Indians and the Pueblo Indians, and by the Australian Aboriginals. While he lived in Ne   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3668 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 8 similar (related) artists for David Paladin available:    Romando Vigil,  Tonita Vigil (Quah Ah) Pena,  Julian Martinez,  Robert Chee,  Beatien (Little No Shirt) Yazz,  Andy Van (Andrew) Tsinajinnie,  Harrison (Haskay Yahne Yah) Begay,  R C Gorman



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Keywords and Quick Facts for David Paladin


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Design
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Mexico and/or Central America
Art School
  • Santa Fe Indian School, Student
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Imprisoned Artist: Wars and/or Political Reasons
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Indian, Native American
  • Navajo Indian

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