Sybil Yazzie

Sybil L. Yazzie (born 1919) was a Navajo painter active in the 1930s.

Yazzie was a pupil of Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School; while she was a student, in 1937, her painting A Crowd at a Navajo N'Da-a, in tempera on paper and dating to 1935, was exhibited in London and Paris. One critic said of it that it was "not naive and childish, but a finished work of art, expert in craftsmanship, intricate in detail, and unerring in color." Her address was given in 1968 as the Garcia Store in Chinle, Arizona, but little else has been recorded of her career. Yazzie's 1935 watercolor Navajo Weavers is owned by the Newark Museum. A gouache from 1937, Yeibechai, is in the collection of the Smith College Museum of Art.