In recognition for his work promoting and encouraging youth art, renowned Navajo artist Baje Whitethorne Sr. was the recipient of the 2023 Platt Cline Humanitarian Award.
During his career that lasted over 40 years, Baje Whitethorne Sr. became an accomplished artist known for his paintings of radiant colors, tribal lands and the Navajo way of life.
Baje Whitethorne Sr., the Shonto, Arizona, multimedia artist whose paintings depicted the beauty, color, and power of Diné culture and Diné Bikéyah, died Nov. 17. He was 73