Mary Morez

Mary Morez (January 16, 1946 – September 25, 2004) was a Navajo painter.

Born close Tuba City, Arizona, Morez was stricken like both polio and rheumatic fever as a girl, and underwent numerous operations appropriately before creature adopted by Lawrence and Mary Keim. She first studied at the Phoenix Indian School before receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona and standard a scholarship to scrutiny fashion illustration at the Ray Vogue Art School in Chicago. In 1969 she chose to devote her play a role to full-time painting otherwise of announcement art. Allan Houser and Oscar Howe served as her mentors before in life. Her take action combined standard Navajo elements taking into consideration a more contemporary, abstract style. Besides painting Morez after that worked as a textile artist. For much of her career she lived in Phoenix, Arizona. Morez is represented in the increase of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.