THE GALLERIES at 924 Paseo de Peralta

THE GALLERIES at 924 Paseo de Peralta Photos by Carolyn Wright

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cross from Canyon Road at 924 Paseo de Peralta are five galleries offering a diverse selection of original, traditional and contemporary painting and sculpture, antique Native American art and jewelry, ethnographic jewelry and artifacts, folk art and antiques. These eclectic treasures can be found at Buffalo Tracks Gallery, Coulter-Brooks Art & Antiques, Coyote’s Paw Gallery, McCreery Jordan Fine Art and James Roybal Fine Art. All five galleries have a reputation for quality and authenticity with many loyal customers from all over the world.

Buffalo Tracks Gallery specializes in antique American Indian art with an emphasis on the plains and the southwest. Items are predominately beadwork but extends to quillwork, prints, books and ephemera. As most of the Native American artists showcased by Buffalo Tracks are deceased and often nameless, owner Erich Erdoes finds his inventory through private collections, estates, auctions and a surprising number of Europeans who sought out Native American regalia during the 18th and 19th centuries. Buffalo Tracks’ museum-quality collection is not to be missed.

Buffalo Tracks Gallery 924 Paseo de Peralta #1 505.983.6106 BuffaloTracks@qwestoffice.net

Coulter-Brooks Art & Antiques showcases a breadth of Native American items such as Navajo and Pueblo weaving, jewelry and objects. The inventory includes devotional art of Spanish New Mexico including tinwork, bultos, retablos as well as furniture from the colonial through the WPA era. Gallery owners Lane Coulter and Jan Brooks have a long interest in the historic architecture of Spanish New Mexico and in supplying period furnishings, lighting and authentic accent pieces that represent the region’s diverse cultural expression.

Coulter-Brooks Art & Antiques 924 Paseo de Peralta #4 505.577.7051 CoulterBrooks.com

Award-winning internationally renowned Santa Fe artist McCreery Jordan creates unique portraits that not only capture a perfect likeness, but are also the very essence of the individual.

Painting in the classical style of the old masters, she incorporates subtle elements like documents, images, and symbols into the background, placing her subject into a kind of layered time capsule. Her work has been described as completely original and priceless.

McCreery Jordan 924 Paseo de Peralta #2 505.501.0415 McCreeryJordan.com

For over 30 years, Coyote’s Paw Gallery owners Alan Suits and Ann Lehman have offered a vast selection of tribal and ethnographic jewelry, collectibles and antiques from around the world. Mongolian earrings, Egyptian bracelets, rings from Uzbekistan, antique Buddhist statues, chests from Mauritania, Bhutanese daggers, Saharan leatherwork — all are among the many exotic items found in the gallery. In addition, there is a large collection of Native American pawn jewelry. All items are chosen for the highest quality of craftsmanship and include unique and rare pieces.

Coyote’s Paw Gallery 924 Paseo de Peralta #3 505.820.6191 CoyotesPaw.com

Born in Santa Fe in 1952 just one and a half blocks from the gallery he now owns, James Roybal of James Roybal Fine Art Santa Fe cast his first bronze in the lost wax method at age 12. Since then, he has cast and sold over 1,300 bronzes. His work is personal and he does 90 percent of the process himself, from the conception to the finished sculpture. Since 1995, pastels and oils have become Roybal’s passion. His artistic style is limitless. “Each painting or sculpture brings a new set of challenges and ways of seeing,” he notes. “I look forward to countless new horizons.”

James Roybal Fine Art Santa Fe 924 Paseo de Peralta #5 505.501.0343 JamesRoybal.com