When he returned to the reservation after the war, he dedicated himself to art. ĭuring World War II, Yazz lied about his age in order to serve in the United States Marine Corps as a Code talker, utilizing his knowledge of the Navajo language. Then he studied for three years at Fort Wingate Indian School and one year at the Sherman Indian High School.
Yazz attended the Wide Ruins Day School, followed by two years at the Santa Fe Indian School. He exhibited for the first time at age 10, with his work shown at a museum in Springfield, Illinois. Bill and Sallie Lippencott, who ran the Wide Ruins Trading Post, recognized his talent and encouraged his art. As a young child, he colored with crayons and enjoyed making art. He often went by his English-language name Jimmy Toddy, as well as by variations of Bea Etin Yazz ("Little No Shirt" in Navajo). Yazz was born to Joe and Desbah Toddy on the Navajo Reservation near Wide Ruins, Arizona. Some of his works have been in the permanent collection of institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Gilcrease Museum, the Logan Museum of Anthropology, the Museum of New Mexico, the Philbrook Museum of Art, and the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. He exhibited his work around the world and is known for his paintings of animals and people and for his children's book illustrations. 11 December 2015.Beatien Yazz (born March 5, 1928), also called Jimmy Toddy, is a Navajo American painter born near Wide Ruins, Arizona. "Alberta Pierson Hannum." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Known the world over through translation of her works into Italian, Korean, Laotian, Russian, and Yugoslavian, Hannum died in Arlington, Virginia.
Spin a Silver Dollar was released as a radio play in 1946 and published as The Blue House by the U.S. Roseanna McCoy, about the Hatfield-McCoy feud, was released by RKO General as a motion picture in 1949. Hannum’s other novels include The Hills Step Lightly (1934), The Gods and One (1941), The Mountain People (1943), and two books set outside the mountains, Spin a Silver Dollar: The Story of a Desert Trading Post (1945) and a novel about Navajos, Paint the Wind (1958). Her works showed an early interest in life in the Appalachians, beginning with her first novel Thursday April (1931) and continuing through Roseanna McCoy (1947) and the memoir, Look Back with Love: A Recollection of the Blue Ridge (1969). A graduate of Ohio State University (B.A., 1927) with graduate study at Columbia University in 1928, Hannum was the wife of Robert Fulton Hannum, the president of Fostoria Glass Company. Writer Alberta Pierson Hannum (AugFebruary 18, 1985) was born in Condit, Ohio, and spent the greater part of her life in the Wheeling area.
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