Sunday, July 22, 2007

Mohave Museum of History and Arts


The Rainbow of the Kachina was painted in Chloride in 1998. A few years later I donated it to the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.
Admittedly the museum is more about the early aboriginal inhabitants of the area, the ranchers and miners and the railroad than about art. Yet it has two paintings of Tony Mafia: one loose sketch and the painting hanging in the directors office. Shannon Rossiter always had his door open and has the brochures and information about Tony, so visitors are welcome to sit down and listen and talk about Tony's art. I felt it was important for Tony's work to be somewhere in his chosen region, seen in the public domain.


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