Keats Begay

Keats Begay (May 17, 1923–January 5, 1987) was a Navajo American painter who lived in Chinle, Arizona and was alert in the late 1930s. Begay has exhibited his take steps across the country, including at the National Gallery of Art, and is known for his colorful, flat style paintings. Some of his works are in the surviving collection of institutions including the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Museum of Northern Arizona, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and the Museum of New Mexico.

Begay studied at the Santa Fe Indian School. Begay's perform included stylized depictions of lustrous landscapes and of shadowy life, sometimes integrated next Navajo sandpainting and other symbolic motifs.

Begay was a long set against runner, earning a own up championship. He served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II, surviving the Bataan Death March in April 1942 and next spending the remainder of the encounter as a prisoner of stroke in Japan. Begay compared his experience on the Bataan Death March as comparable to the Long Walk of the Navajo in 1864, in which Navajo were forcibly moved to a reservation.