{{Short description|American painter (1916–2002)}} {{Infobox person | name = Sybil Lansing Yazzie Baldwin | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|5|14|mf=y}} | birth_place = Chinle, Arizona | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|11|25|1916|5|14|mf=y}} | death_place = | citizenship = Diné (Navajo) }}
'''Sybil Lansing Yazzie Baldwin''' (May 14, 1916 – November 25, 2002)<ref name="krch-diss">{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Krch |first=Pamela Kay |date=2016 |title=Cultural Sovereignty and Cultural Violence: Native American Artists and the Dunn Studio, 1932–1962 |publisher=The University of Texas at El Paso |id={{ProQuest|1803609695}} }}</ref>{{rp|140}} was a Diné (Navajo) painter active in the 1930s.
== About == Yazzie was a pupil of Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS), considered the birthplace of contemporary Native American easel painting.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McKenna |first1=Arin |title=Culture Center; City Museum Enrich, Enlighten and Entertain |accessdate=8 April 2019 |url=https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1516831&crid=f9ee2183-2dc2-4550-944c-903a09e94be7&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A7VT6-KSN1-2PMP-W359-00000-00&pddocid=urn%3AcontentItem%3A7VT6-KSN1-2PMP-W359-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=147872&pdteaserkey=sr0&pditab=allpods&ecomp=1fyk&earg=sr0&prid=94ff4ee8-6702-4567-ab51-272ec61ee34f |work=The Santa Fe New Mexican |date=May 17, 2009}}</ref> In annual student exhibitions of 1935, 1936, and 1937 at SFIS, critics such as Olive Rush and Frederic Douglas described Yazzie's work as "sensitive" and "outstanding", and showing "a miniature style of great beauty".<ref name=krch-diss />{{rp|142}} While she was still a student at SFIS in 1937, her 1935 work ''A Crowd at a Navajo N'Da-a'' in tempera on paper, was exhibited in London and Paris. One critic said that it was "not naive and childish, but a finished work of art, expert in craftsmanship, intricate in detail, and unerring in color."<ref name="Broder2013">{{cite book|author=Patricia Janis Broder|title=Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qbd_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT384|year= 2013|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-4668-5972-2|pages=384–}}</ref> Yazzie's work was also exhibited at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1970 and at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in 2009–10.<ref>{{cite news |title=Indian artists in Flagstaff exhibit |issue=96 |publisher=Gannett Co., Inc. |date=August 20, 1970|id={{ProQuest|1929631064}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Through Their Eyes: Paintings from the Santa Fe Indian School |url=https://wheelwright.org/exhibitions/through-their-eyes-paintings-from-the-santa-fe-indian-school/ |website=wheelwright.org |accessdate=9 April 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409131950/https://wheelwright.org/exhibitions/through-their-eyes-paintings-from-the-santa-fe-indian-school/ |archivedate=9 April 2019}}</ref> Her address was given in 1968 as the Garcia Store in Chinle, Arizona, but little has been recorded of her career after leaving the SFIS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/americanindianpa00king/americanindianpa00king_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "American Indian painters; a biographical directory"|website=archive.org|year=1968 |accessdate=29 June 2017}}</ref> Yazzie's 1935 watercolor ''Navajo Weavers'' is owned by the Newark Museum.<ref name="Broder2013"/> A gouache from 1937, ''Yeibechai'', is in the collection of the Smith College Museum of Art.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?museum=sc&t=objects&type=all&f=&s=SC+2001.4.2&record=0 |title=Collections Database|website=museums.fivecolleges.edu|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref>
Yazzie died on November 25, 2002, aged 86.<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/42135444:60901?tid=&pid=&queryId=798d64b3f9629287b9021b7f9a0dbb74&_phsrc=ddL12227&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry |access-date=30 May 2023}}</ref>
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