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We specialize in the Art and Artists of New Mexico, Arizona, Southern California, Northwest Mexico.......Native American, Hispanic, Euro-American Cultures.....(Recent Artists are listed by Date of Birth)

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EARL DENET....Earl began carving in the old style when others in his family started carving these dolls. Urged by his father, Joseph, who always encouraged his sons and nephews to carry on the traditional ways, Earl's dolls represent the actual kachinas as they would appear in his village of Sichomovi.

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SHELDON HARVEY.........beautiful masks, wood sculptures, ye'ii figures (ye'ii are Navajo supernatural beings) and paintings, all with Navajo themes.

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RANDY BROKESHOULDER....recognized "Traditional Native Artist" specializing in handcrafting Hopi Katsina Dolls

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MONTY CLAW....Navajo....... US - Southwest..... Kareen Claw, Native American Fine Art, Paintings, Textiles

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JENNIFER NEHRBASS...(b. 1970), Her paintings are masterfully photo-realistic, and the situations therein are at once outlandish and strangely familiar.

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FRANCISCO BENITEZ.... (born in Taos in 1967) currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he creates his painted Caravaggesque narratives.

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ROXANNE SWENTZELL..... Born:1962....Native American sculptor and contemporary pueblo artist

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PATSSI VALDEZ...Born 1951...sought a contemporary vision of Chicano women, which she juxtaposed against Hollywood ideals of glamour....paintings imbued with an emotive spirit reminiscent of the magic-realists....

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CARLOS CARULO was born in 1950 in Chile. He combines hard edges, soft washes and glazes to create unique works.

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RANDALL LAGRO.....One of the most renowned painters of contemporary regional art, Born in Ohio, LaGro has made New Mexico his home and workshop for over fifteen years.

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KIM WIGGINS....Born: 1959......Wiggins paintings have evolved with a unique, dramatic style. He populates his dynamic, bold canvases with ribbons of color, bulbous clouds, expressionistic mountains, sinewy trees and distorted houses.

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STETSON HONYUMPTEWA....Master Hopi carver Stetson Honyumptewa is renowned as one of the leading contemporary kachina carvers.

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FREDERICO VIGIL......BORN 1946 in Santa Fe has been very active in a group of Hispanic artists, La Confradia, that formed in 1978 to show their own work outside of the established Santa Fe "art scene," from which they felt excluded.

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SUSAN ROTHENBERG....(b. 1945)... an important figure in the transition from Minimalism to Neoexpressionism.

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CAROL ANTHONY... ..(Born 1943......Her intimate works depicting isolated buildings, sparse landscapes, and single pieces of fruit insert new life into simple subject matter.

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HELEN HARDIN.........1943-1984.....breaking free of the traditional mold, Helen's work became strongly geometric and increasingly abstract. Her work frequently incorporated Mimbres and Anasazi figures and kachina forms and masks

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ERNEST MOORE......his old-style kachina figures or ceremonial “dolls” carvings have won Best of Show at the Museum of Northern Arizona Hopi Show.

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LARRY BELL..... (Born 1939..... alters and manipulates the perceptions of his spectators, and challenges their conception of visual space and their relationship to it. Bell lives and works in Taos, New Mexico.

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PATRICK MCFARLIN....... Born 1939 .....In 1990 Patrick moved to Santa Fe. In 1993 he began painting portraits of friends in his Santa Fe studio, named “Pat's Downtown Club,” which became a center for artistic collaboration

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ELIAS RIVERA.......born 1937.....His classical training and Old Master technique invoke a true narrative quality rarely seen in contemporary realist painting.

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FORREST MOSES......(Born 1934)......New Mexico has been Moses’ home since 1969.

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ROBERT DAUGHTERS....(b.1929).....During a 1953 visit to Taos, Robert discovered the beauty and light of the area. He and his family finally made their move to Santa Fe in 1970, then to Taos in 1972.

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GENE KLOSS...... (1903-1996)....... attended many ceremonies at Taos, Cochiti, San Felipe, Santa Ana and Santo Domingo. Gene politely refrained from sketching during ceremonies, but she had an acute visual memory and was always welcome in the pueblos to sketch when no ceremony was being held.

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WILLARD NASH.... referred to hyperbolically as “the American Cezanne,” was the most progressive and multidimensional member of the short-lived group of Santa Fe artists known as “Los Cinco Pintores.”

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RICHARD DIEBENKORN....(1922-1993)...Critics persist in referring to Diebenkorn's early work as "abstract expressionism." It does indeed respond to the art of older figures of the New York School, such as Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Arshile Gorky (1904-1948). But Diebenkorn's New Mexico-period work pretty consistently lacks the sense of emotional eruption that might justify calling it expressionistic.

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FLORENCE PIERCE .......1918-2007........Moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1936 to study at Emil Bisttrams School of Art. There she met her husband, Horace Towner Pierce, who was one of the founders of the New Mexico Transcendentalist Painting Group, a group committed to abstract art. She was their youngest member (1938-1941).

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PABLITA VELARDE......1918-2006.......Replete with exacting detail of native daily life, dress and ceremonies, Velarde's work is also considered of immense ethnographic importance.

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HARRISON BEGAY.....(Born 1917-).....Considered by many to be the dean of traditional Navajo artists.

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AGNES MARTIN.......1912 – 2004......A forerunner of Minimalist art.  She began her career in New York, and spent her later years in New Mexico....."I do not paint this world."....

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WILLIAM LUMPKINS......1909 - 2000....became involved in 1938 with the Transcendentalist Painting Group founded by with Jonson and Emil Bisttram.

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VIRGINIA MORE ROEDIGER....began studying Pueblo dances in 1925 when she drove out west for college. She wrote Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians as her dissertation in the School of Drama at Yale University

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ALFRED MORANG.....1901 - 1958.....relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1937. In Santa Fe, Morang's interest turned back to painting, and Morang was a founding member of the Transcendental Painting

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KENNETH ADAMS ...1897 – 1966.....Taos, New Mexico ... in 1926 he became the final and youngest artist to join the Taos Society of Artists.

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BARBARA LATHAM......1896-1989...... In 1925, Latham moved to Taos, New Mexico where she lived with her artist husband, Howard Cook. While in New Mexico Latham concentrated her energies on the landscape near her home and on the Native American genre paintings for which she’s most recognized.

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TONITA PENA... (1895-1949)....Quah Ah (White Coral Beads) was the first Pueblo woman artist to throw off the traditional restrictions that were usually imposed upon women in Pueblo culture...Her own determination to succeed, combined with her very remarkable talent, enabled her to make a substantial contribution to the world of Indian art.

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EMIL BISTRAM....(1895-1976)......In Taos, New Mexico ... “Whenever I tried to paint what was before me I was frustrated by the grandeur of the scenery and the limitless space. Above all a strange, almost mystic quality of light.”

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RAYMOND JONSON......1891-1982.....in 1938, he founded the Transcendental Painting Group

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TOMAS VIGIL...- Pan Yo Pin (Tesuque).. (c. 1889-1960)...Tomas Vigil was one of the earliest 20th century pueblo painters, with most of his works produced between 1920 and 1950. A self-taught artist, his works captured the customs of the Tesuque with rigid accuracy and detail.

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE........1887-1986.....D. H. Lawrence phrased it best while residing in Taos in the 1920s:.....white people still haven't got the rhythm of America, the perfect rhythm of American earth. The Indians have had it so long, maybe they're in danger of losing it. The new revelation will come when the white people, when some white Woman gets the perfect rhythm of the American earth.

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DOROTHY BRETT......(1883-1976)......her roots were finally firmly planted in New Mexico. She developed a strong emotional attachment to D. H. Lawrence

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WILLLIAM HERVERT 'Buck' DUNTON......1878-1936......He first visited the village of Taos, New Mexico in 1912, moved there permanently in 1914, and, in 1925, became a founding member of the first artist colony west of the Mississippi.

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GERALD CASSIDY........(1879-1934)....Pablo Picasso chose one of Cassidy’s pieces from a show for inclusion in the Luxembourg Palace in Paris.

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OSCAR BERNINGHAUS......1874-1952......his artistic instincts led to the depiction of commonplace incidents and scenes of daily life, in contrast to the dramatic western conflicts created by such artists as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell

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ERNEST BLUMENSCHEIN....1874-1960]....Taos Society of Artists founder...   Ernest L. Blumenschein was far and away the most well known of the Taos painters during his lifetime. His painstakingly executed canvases, in his distinctive style that was first called “post-impressionist” and later modernist, garnered him a wide and appreciative audience, and numerous awards. he most ions in the

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SVEN BIRGER SANDZEN (1871–1954), adopted strong colourful brushstrokes, which has been described variously as post-Impressionism, expressionism and fauvism.

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JOHN MARIN (1870 - 1953) born in Rutherford, New Jersey was an early American modernist artist. Known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.

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ALICE SCHILLE......1869-1955.....Considered one of America's foremost women watercolorists, her paintings are again receiving the national attention they did in the early 1900s.

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SHELDON PARSONS (1866-1943) in 1913 relocated to Santa Fe becoming one of the area’s first artists.

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JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (1859- 1953)...... is widely considered to have been the “Spiritual Father” of the Taos Society of Artists.

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