'The Reclining Figure.' Etching (possibly with aquatint). 17 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches. signed and dated 1970 in pencil. framed 28 x 33 inches. Edition 20. (The figure appears posed in a studio space with views through a window of a New Mexican landscape).

Cohoe was born on the Navajo Reservation in Tocito, New Mexico. Depictions of male nudes are not common in his oeuvre and very scarce to find in Native American art from his time. This can be explained by the homophobia that was brought into Native American culture through Christianization and the related systemic forces like the residential-industrial school system, anti-culture laws of the 19th-20th centuries such as the Canadian Potlatch law, and the poverty that resulted from these systemic forces, all of which worked against Native American creative pursuits and self-expression. For complete images see vallots.com

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