A Red Bull Mud Toy by Elsie Benally
A Mud Toy by Navajo artist Elsie Benally, featuring a big-shouldered white-faced bull clothed in a red velvet suit. He has wide white horns and hooves, a cotton fluff mane and velvet tail, and a sweet face with black eyes. 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, velvet, and cotton, 2 x 3 ¼ x 4 inches.
Mud Toys, sunbaked clay figures decorated with paint, fabric scraps, and wool, are an art form revived by Elsie Benally and Mamie Deschellie in the 1980s in Farmington New Mexico. on the edge of the Navajo Reservation. Elsie’s figures often depict animals wrapped in homespun wool, with sweet whimsical faces, or horses or circus animals ridden by Navajos decked out in fine clothing, and sometimes riding double with children or small animals.
A Mud Toy by Navajo artist Elsie Benally, featuring a big-shouldered white-faced bull clothed in a red velvet suit. He has wide white horns and hooves, a cotton fluff mane and velvet tail, and a sweet face with black eyes. 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, velvet, and cotton, 2 x 3 ¼ x 4 inches.
Mud Toys, sunbaked clay figures decorated with paint, fabric scraps, and wool, are an art form revived by Elsie Benally and Mamie Deschellie in the 1980s in Farmington New Mexico. on the edge of the Navajo Reservation. Elsie’s figures often depict animals wrapped in homespun wool, with sweet whimsical faces, or horses or circus animals ridden by Navajos decked out in fine clothing, and sometimes riding double with children or small animals.
A Mud Toy by Navajo artist Elsie Benally, featuring a big-shouldered white-faced bull clothed in a red velvet suit. He has wide white horns and hooves, a cotton fluff mane and velvet tail, and a sweet face with black eyes. 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, velvet, and cotton, 2 x 3 ¼ x 4 inches.
Mud Toys, sunbaked clay figures decorated with paint, fabric scraps, and wool, are an art form revived by Elsie Benally and Mamie Deschellie in the 1980s in Farmington New Mexico. on the edge of the Navajo Reservation. Elsie’s figures often depict animals wrapped in homespun wool, with sweet whimsical faces, or horses or circus animals ridden by Navajos decked out in fine clothing, and sometimes riding double with children or small animals.