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Harrison Begay
Navajo, b. 1917

Born at White Cone, near Keams Canyon, Arizona, Harrison Begay was raised in the traditional way, speaking Navajo and living in a hogan.

Begay graduated from the Santa Fe Indian School in 1939, studied architecture at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and produced murals for the Works Projects Administration. He served three years in the U.S. Army in Europe and Iceland during World War II.

In the 1950s, Begay and others founded one of the first Indian-owned art businesses, Tewa Enterprises in Santa Fe, to make and sell reproductions of their work.

In 1997, HarrisonBegay was named an Arizona Indian Living Treasure. Although his eyesight is failing, he still paints a couple of hours a day at his home in Greasewood, Arizona, near his birthplace.

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