Vintage Mixed Media Abstract Painting by Dine Artist Anthony Chee Emerson.  Buffalo Dreams In Color.  It has great colors and is super decorative as well as being very well done.  The artist is certainly an up and coming Navajo Artist and has auction records as high as 750.00 and pre-sale estimated over at $2000.00.  This is a colorful painting framed and matted at 12.5" x 15.5" wide.  Its all in very fine condition with no issues and makes a beautiful statement hanging on a wall.  Great for any office or home collection!!   A little information about the artist follows: 

Anthony Chee Emerson, Diné (Navajo), was born in 1963, in the Four Corners area of New Mexico.   Anthony Emerson does figurative painting of persons reflecting his culture. He also paints stylized landscapes and animals and some abstractions.  His paintings are narrative and reflect a life that he had to learn about because he grew up in Los Angeles in an ethnically mixed neighborhood that was a long way from the Four Corners area. However, his parents exposed him to his native ways.   He attended school and graduated from Rehoboth High School, 1980, attended Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA and University Of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. He graduated with Associates of Arts Degree from San Juan College in 2004.  The artwork of Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso was especially influential to him in his works.    Emerson began his professional art career in 1982, and participated in the Santa Fe Indian Market and Gallup Intertribal Ceremonials that year, and has continued every year since.   He taught Art at the Navajo Academy, located in Farmington, NM, in 1985 and 1986.   In 1999 he and his wife opened Emerson Gallery, in Farmington, NM, featuring his paintings, Betty Begay Emerson's folk art and works by friends of his.    Anthony Chee Emerson illustrated four Children's Books “How the Rattlesnake Got its Rattle,”  “Songs of Shiprock Fair,”  “First Fire” and “My Horse.” In 2000, he received a commission to create the poster image for the New Mexico State Libraries and also a commission for the all-Native Totah arts festival in Farmington.   In 2002, he was commissioned to illustrate for Johns Hopkins University Native American Health Studies for Teen suicide prevention