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Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe

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Many, many illustrations and excellent text make this a must-read for any devotee of New Mexico and Taos painting. I have a copy of the author's bought in a used book store; Amazon lists it as 'limited availability', so if interested you ought to order one soon.

A handsome, large-format book with about 200 color illustrations AND an intelligent text which provides worthy commentary and historical background.

Book nitty-gritty: an oblong trade paperback, hefty but not "coffee table," 240 pp, issued without dustjacket. An 8 page chronology, 19 pp of artist biographies, a 9 page Bibliography, and an index.

I LOVE the fact that this covers the time period 1900-1945 because we get artists who have feet planted in the 19th century tradition and artists who are fully 20th century creators. Even more ambitious, painters who are clearly from the European "high culture" tradition of painting appear along with native and nativist visions from the southwest tradition.

Some of the artists featured include Hopper, Henri, Paul Berlin, Gerald Cassidy, Ma-Pe-Wi, Fred Kabotie, Nampeo, O'Keeffe, Cady Wells, Carlos Vierra, Remington, Maria Montoya Martinez, Stuart Davis, William P. Henderson, and several anonymous native artists and craftspeople.

The book is organized by theme rather than strict chronology. Here are the chapter titles...

Beyond the Picturesque
Science and Sentiment: Indian Images at the Turn of the Century
From Salon to Pueblo: the First Generation
The Art of Pueblo Life
The Hispanic Southwest
The Faraway Nearby: New Mexico and the Modern Landscape

A handsome, large-format book with about 200 color illustrations AND an intelligent text which provides worthy commentary and historical background.

Book nitty-gritty: an oblong trade paperback, hefty but not "coffee table," 240 pp, issued without dustjacket. An 8 page chronology, 19 pp of artist biographies, a 9 page Bibliography, and an index.

I LOVE the fact that this covers the time period 1900-1945 because we get artists who have feet planted in the 19th century tradition and artists who are fully 20th century creators. Even more ambitious, painters who are clearly from the European "high culture" tradition of painting appear along with native and nativist visions from the southwest tradition.

Some of the artists featured include Hopper, Henri, Paul Berlin, Gerald Cassidy, Ma-Pe-Wi, Fred Kabotie, Nampeo, O'Keeffe, Cady Wells, Carlos Vierra, Remington, Maria Montoya Martinez, Stuart Davis, William P. Henderson, and several anonymous native artists and craftspeople.

The book is organized by theme rather than strict chronology. Here are the chapter titles...

Beyond the Picturesque
Science and Sentiment: Indian Images at the Turn of the Century
From Salon to Pueblo: the First Generation
The Art of Pueblo Life
The Hispanic Southwest
The Faraway Nearby: New Mexico and the Modern Landscape

it was long boring and down right stupid dont get it