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"Seated Male Nude, " Superb Art Deco Drawing by Waano Gano
$1,500List Price
About the Item
- Creator:Joe Waano-Gano (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)Width: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)
- Style:Art Deco (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:Circa 1930s
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- Seller Location:Philadelphia, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU8651865657
Joe Waano-Gano
Joe Waano-Gano was born in the US in 1906. He is a native American artist with a prestigious career in California in the 1930s and 1940s. Born a Cherokee Indian (his name means "Bow-Arrow"), Waano-Gano studied with Christian von Schneidau in the 1920s before exhibiting widely in the 1930s and 1940s. Waano-Gano won a series of medals and prizes, painted murals in the Los Angeles General Hospital, and promoted the native art of the American Indian.
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