RARE Hopi Original Painting of a Badger Katsina [SOLD]

Waldo Mootzka's work has been widely compared to that of Fred Kabotie in terms of Mootzka's outlines and proportions. In the 1930s, John Louw Nelson employed Mootzka, among others, to create paintings for sale that portrayed Indians in everyday life. In 1940, Mootzka was in an automobile accident that exacerbated his tuberculosis, and he died later that year.

Because of his early death at the age of only 30 years and his career as a jeweler, very few paintings by Mootzka are available for collectors to own. This small painting of a single Hopi Badger Katsina is exquisite and in absolutely wonderful condition.  It is signed in lower right MOOTZKA and dates to circa 1930.

It has just been framed using all acid-free materials and a simple blond wood frame.  It is a wonderful companion to another Mootzka small painting that is our Item Number C3267J.

Condition: appears to be in original condition

Provenance:  from a collector of Native paintings from Arizona who purchased it at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff

Recommended Reading: Southwest Indian Painting a Changing Art by Clara Lee Tanner