SPIRIT PAINTING NAVAJO KACHINA SHAMAN LISTED PALADIN David Chetlahe Paladin 1926 - 1984 Visionary Painter Start Price USD 599.99 Current Price USD 599.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, August 12, 2008 End Time Friday, August 22, 2008 Location Marysville, CA See more about 'SPIRIT PAINTING NAVAJO KACHINA SHAMAN LISTED PALADIN ' Description FIRE EARTH GODDavid Chethlahe Paladin 1926 - 1984Listed Visionary Navajo PainterShaman Kachina Painting12" x 16" Painting in 20" x 24" Frame Powerful Shaman Kachina Spirit MeditationJourney to the Spirit WorldDavid Chethlahe Paladin      To the spirit place I have journeyed,visiting the ghosts from worlds past.I have felt their tearsand tasted their troubles,shared their joys and singing.With them I have danced.Returning now to my world,I see them only as colorsdancing in my dreams.Yet they are as realAs the Dream of Beingthat I am now. Kachina Dances At FireSPIRIT Emerges From Smoketo enter this worldDavid Chetlahe Paladin is  listed with askart.com and has numerous auction records establishing the value of this painting in the range of my Buy It Now price.Signing his paintings with his middle name, Chetlahe is a visionary poet and painter very involved in the Spirit World reality that he paints. Cloud SongsDavid Chethlahe Paladin      Messengers from the gods,the clouds whisper their song.And with its singinga vision is born.It is this vision I would share with you,for it is one of everlasting beauty.See my vision and hear my song.Dance to its music,that your spirit may share it also. Shaman's PoemDavid Chethlahe Paladin      Thunder Who Speaks From the Mountain, I am.Sun Bear, I am.Turtle Who Cries in the Night, I am.Three voices speak from my sacred mountain.I am heard.Thunder voice speaks, I shudder.Sun voice speaks, I burn.Turtle voice speaks, I cry.All three of my voices speak.I am thunder, fire and water,mixed at the foot of my sacredmountain.My voices speak,rising up like eagle wings.My voices speak,wrapping life in soft dreams. BLESSED BE, FRIENDThanks for looking Growing up wasn't easy for David Paladin. He wasn't white and he wasn't red; he was a half-breed, something that was looked down upon in the 1930's (b.1926). He was the son of a Navajo Indian mother and a white missionary father, spending his early years on the Navajo reservation near Chinle, Arizona. Friends were hard to come by when the teachers at missionary schools and the Santa Fe Indian School held him up as an example because he was light-skinned. But Joe Wilson, a full-blooded Navajo cousin liked him. "It's what's inside you that counts. It's not whether you're Indian or white," Joe counseled. An incorrigible runaway, a stowaway, a secret agent, a WW II prison camp survivor, Paladin's life story sounds more like fiction than fact. Later associations with indigenous peoples led to his education as a shaman by the Huichols and Tarahumaras of Mexico, the Northwest Coastal Indians and the Pueblo Indians, and by the Australian Aboriginals. While he lived in New Mexico he was a radio announcer for a classical music station, midwife, volunteer police chaplain, and prison chaplain at Los Lunas Medium Security Correctional Facility where he began the first Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in a prison setting. He devoted the last twenty years of his life to painting and community service (d 1984). Although he resisted art teachers like Dorothy Dunn in the early days at the Santa Fe Indian School, he always knew he wanted to be an artist. A visit with Marc Chagall while Paladin was a student at the Chicago Art Institute gave his art direction as Chagall encouraged him to draw upon his native heritage and to paint his personal visions inspired by creation legends. Although David Chethlahe Paladin is an influential artist in terms of his contributions to the development of contemporary Native American art, the breadth and depth of his work exceeds the usual artistic style appellations. Paladin's art is rooted in but not bounded by the lore of his Indian ancestry. His themes are timelessness and universality. While some of his motifs are recognizably Indian, Paladin's singular ability to amalgamate recurrent images enables him to straddle cultures and embrace design concepts that have a universal rather than merely cultural appeal. At the core of his remarkably diverse art is the theme of harmony and peace as it touches upon the spiritual and dream qualities of the roots of humankind.Thanks for looking. Questions are always welcome. If you pay with Paypal you must be confirmed and verified. I also accept US Postal Money Orders. Thanks. Place a Bid!