The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Navajo Boy, Gallup, New Mexico
1971
(American, 1942-)
Image: 23.4 x 33.8 cm (9 3/16 x 13 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.6 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
By the early 1970s, Lyon had already created a distinguished body of work that deftly combined a keen interest in photojournalism with his artistic talent. In this engaging portrait of a Navajo boy shooting pool, he employed his outstanding technical skills at composition and lighting to call attention to the mysterious, sometimes perilous world of spare, neighborhood pool halls and their occupants. The rigid geometric shapes of the overhead light and the pool tables, cues, and balls provide a sense of order to a game propelled by human movement and emotion. Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund 2008.40- Photographer; The Witkin Gallery, New York; Evelyne Daitz/Witkin Gallery, New York; Etherton Gallery, Tucson; CMA.
- Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-September 13, 2009).The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/01/2009 - 09/13/2009); "Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present"
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.40