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[Original Drawing] Two Navajo Children with Campfire

Original Detailed Pencil Drawing. 11x9½ inches. Unsigned. Matted in non-acidic board. Very fine. An original pencil drawing by this artist of the American Southwest. Although not titled, the Navajo kids look like Moon's characters, Naw-Wee and Datsay. The Book of Naw-Wee was published in 1932. The drawing shows a teen-age Navajo boy standing over the campfire warming his hands while a teen-age Navajo maiden kneels at the fire cooking a piece of meat on a stick. This work is most definitely by Carl Moon and the provenance is impeccable. [Argonaut Book Shop: Carl Moon. Photographer & Illustrator of the American Southwest: item 96].