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This award-winning, self-taught artist continues to perfect his craft by learning from his father, Ted Bordeaux.Īmong his accolades are awards for Best of Show in 1999 at the Black Hills Art Expo and the Artist Choice Award at Indigenous Peoples Art Market in 2001. Todd is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. (Read more and view additional images, along with pricing, on our website.)
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In addition to his mainly Navajo ancestry, Hyrum also has Southern Ute ancestry from his father, Hopi blood from both his mother and father's sides and even some White Mountain Apache from his mother's side. In addition to his influence, Hyrum has studied, as well as appreciated the works of "Master Painter", Howard Terpning, Figure Painter Ned Jacob, and the late Christian-theme painter, Harry Anderson. Whether his paintings depict a couple of Northern Traditional Dancers at a pow wow, or an elderly Navajo couple at a Squaw Dance, he feel's a need to be there, dancing, to get a true feeling and sense of what it is has been like through years of history. Today, Hyrum gets his inspiration by seeking to live what he paints. He has recently participated in various art shows in New Mexico and Arizona including the more premiere shows of Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Market and the George Phippen Memorial Western Art Show. After graduation from Kirtland Central High School, he studied figurative charcoal drawing and oil painting at Mesa Community College in Mesa, AZ under instructor Jim Garrison who taught with a deep admiration of the influences of the 19th century "European Masters." There, Hyrum was quickly drawn into his favorite subject matter, painting the Southwest Indian cultures and unique lifestyles from 1850-1950, a time period that is intriguing to him and is still somewhat accessible. Joe Sr., a well known bronze and stone sculptor. Among them, he has received a great amount of inspiration from his father, Oreland C. (Read more about this image, along with pricing, on our website.)īorn in 1979 in Farmington, NM and raised on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Shiprock, NM, Hyrum grew up in a family of Native American artists. Each framed and printed image is individually hand-created, together encompassing over 70 different steps. Cardozo spent over three years and nearly half a million dollars on research and development.
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Goal: to consistently produce stunning Goldtones as good as the top half percent of Edward Curtis’ vintage Goldtones. No one has done more to increase the awareness, understanding, and appreciation for Curtis’ work than Christopher Cardozo, except Edward Curtis himself.Ĭardozo reinvented the lost Goldtone process from the ground up, marrying the best of modern technology using Curtis’ exquisite negatives. Having collected Edward Curtis’ artwork for four decades, Cardozo has created the world’s largest and most broad-ranging Curtis collection. He is the author of nine monographs on Edward Curtis and has created and curated one-person Edward Curtis exhibitions that have been seen in nearly one hundred venues in over forty countries. Christopher Cardozo is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on Edward S.