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<p>[QUOTE="Rclinftl, post: 9419525, member: 78249"]Native American</p><p><br /></p><p>Valenty Zaharek was born and raised in Crivitz, WI, where he learned his art. A World War II veteran, he contracted polio and moved to Sedona, Arizona in 1951 where he owned and operated Montezuma Arts and Crafts and began construction on "Pecos West". The figures and landscape are carved from pine, redwood, burl oak, and aspen. He first displayed the completed cyclorama at the New Mexico State Fair and at various Navajo Tribal Fairs in the late 1960s. After his death in 1979, the cyclorama was owned by his cousin and then sold or auctioned to other museums.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rclinftl, post: 9419525, member: 78249"]Native American Valenty Zaharek was born and raised in Crivitz, WI, where he learned his art. A World War II veteran, he contracted polio and moved to Sedona, Arizona in 1951 where he owned and operated Montezuma Arts and Crafts and began construction on "Pecos West". The figures and landscape are carved from pine, redwood, burl oak, and aspen. He first displayed the completed cyclorama at the New Mexico State Fair and at various Navajo Tribal Fairs in the late 1960s. After his death in 1979, the cyclorama was owned by his cousin and then sold or auctioned to other museums.[/QUOTE]
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