Harrison BEGAY (born November 15, 1917, White Cone, Arizona–died August 18, 2012, Gilbert, Arizona)
Harrison Begay, a Navajo, was born in White Cone, Arizona, in 1914. He attended Fort Wingate Indian School in New Mexico, and is a graduate of the Santa Fe Indian School. He studied briefly with painter Gerald Curtis Delano and began exhibiting his artwork in 1946, and has worked full time as an artist since. In the later years of his life, Begay resided in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He creates prints and paintings in tempera, watercolor and acrylics that depict Navajo Indian figures and other southwest scenes. His work is described as quiet and peaceful in tone. He has also painted murals for Maisel's Indian Trading Post in Albuquerque.