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CONTENTS

2012/2013 Vol. 2

Publisher Chris Baker

At Home with Innate Expression: A Primer of Taos Art

Editor/Art Director Michelle M. Gutierrez

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Graphic Design Julie Osmanski Jeff Spicer Kim Wilson Contributing Writers Judith Kendall Ariana Kramer Copy Editor Virginia Clark

Ernest Blumenschein, “Deserted Mining Camp”, Oil on linen, 68.6 x 84 cm.

Courtesy Harwood Foundation.

Essential Truth & Personal Vitality: The Taos Moderns 28 Women of Taos: Champions of the Arts

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Artist Index

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At Home With Inn A Primer of Taos

By Ariana Kramer

©Geraint Smith

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hen Australian-born Robert Hughes, who has been called the most popular art critic in America, set out to write his book, “American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America” he began with the religious art of the Spanish Conquistadores of Northern New Mexico.

“I was struck by this and pleased,” said David Witt,

an art historian and former curator of Taos’ Harwood Museum of Art. “He starts it here because he thinks it’s the heart of [American art].”

In 1972, years before Witt began his career, he visited the Taos art museum. He left with two images indelibly imprinted in his memory. “Winter Funeral” painted by Victor Higgins and the work of Patrociño Barela.

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nnate Expression: Art It is difficult to know where to begin the story of art in Taos. This is a place where rock carvings older than the Mayflower exist, where elaborately painted shards from clay pots that predate the signing of the U.S. Constitution are scattered. It is a land more familiar with artistic creations of hide, fiber, and clay than canvas and frame; more at home with innate expression than schooled technique.

Higgins (1884-1949), purportedly walked the painting into the Harwood and placed it in its current location above the fireplace of the main room. The piece is iconic in its mastery and message, depicting a group of people huddled together under the vastness of a winter sky and mountains – horse-drawn carts and automobiles parked in adjacent fields, prescient of a culture hung between its past and future.

Victor Higgins, “Winter Funeral”, oil on canvas, 46 x 60.

Courtesy of Harwood Foundation.

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By 1951, Taos was the most important center for modern art outside of New York and San Francisco.

Barela (1908-1964) was a self-taught woodcarver of religious figures made from juniper and pine. His work was exhibited in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in 1936, launching him into the public spotlight.

“Barela is the most important artist to come out of Taos,” says Witt. “Nobody else has had the audacity to make the human soul their subject.”

Barela represents the older artistic traditions of the Taos area — the Puebloan and Spanish-speaking artists who worked with the substances of the natural world to unfurl the spirit. These artists set the tone for those to follow.

The richness of their traditions and lives captivated those artists schooled in the classic styles of European painting who landed in Taos in the late 1800s and early 1900s, quickly spreading the word about the creative possibilities of the area to their friends back East and in Europe.

different climate zones represented. Also, the quality of light became a subject of serious study for painters such as Higgins, Ernest Blumenschein (18741960) and Walter Ufer (1876-1936).

“What they were really doing was trying to find unique American subject matter.

There’s a patriotic subtext to this,” said Witt. “They found American subject matter, a quality of light, and also found this amazing cultural environment.”

Six artists formed the Taos Society of Artists in 1915. The society, which grew to include more than 20 artists, promoted the art coming out of the Taos art colony on a national level. Disbanded in 1927, the Taos Society of Artists succeeded in its mission.

In 1917, Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan came to Taos and began to invite numerous elite intellectuals and artists to her home – using her influence to connect Carl Jung, Georgia O’Keefe, Ansel Adams, D.H. Lawrence and others Why were these artists attracted to to the small Northern New Mexican town.

Taos? According to Witt, it was in large Andrew Dasburg (1887-1979), came to part the physical environment. Taos Taos as a guest of Luhan in 1918. By County is extremely rich in biological that time he was already well-known for diversity, with six of the world’s seven his Cubist-inspired work. Witt ranks him 18 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

among the major American artists.

He was followed by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), “arguably the best 20th century American modernist,” in Witt’s estimation.

“Modernists are interested in the patterns that hold everything together – including the patterns that we don’t necessarily see,” Witt explained. “The Modernists are really interested in underlying structure, a deeper level of meaning than representational artists are after.”

From the 1920s to the early 1950s, Taos became a popular place for the art elite to visit, or stay. By 1951, Witt said, Taos was “the most important center for modern art outside of New York and San Francisco” with artists such as Agnes Martin, Edward Corbett, Clay Spohn, Louis Ribak, Beatrice Mandelman, Ted Egri and about 30 others known as the Taos Moderns.

Agnes Martin’s biomorphic shapes and soft grid-line abstract work are featured in special exhibits at the Harwood Museum this year.

Taos continues to attract artists who work in a variety of mediums – familiar and innovative. In recent years, Taos has lost several artists of significance. Among them are R.C. Gorman, Ted Egri, Ann Saint John Hawley and Kenneth Price.

prints, spiritual art, abstract expressionism and nature, Ann Saint John Hawley (1919-2011) expressed herself in numerous media including drawings, Sumi-E ink, landscapes, lithography, photography, woodcarving, writing and dance. Her art is part of the permanent collection at the Harwood Museum of Art, and in various collections in Europe and Asia.

Kenneth Price (1935-2012) was a printmaker and ceramic artist.

At the time of his death, the Los Angeles Times printed a story that included this quote from Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and organizer of the Fall 2012 Price retrospective for the museum: “Price’s practice has remained Ted Egri (1913-2010) painted before resolutely original, challenging he moved to Taos in 1950. Once categorization and redefining here, he began working as a sculptor contemporary sculpture.” of wood and metal. He was known L to R: Patrociño Barela, “Untitled”. Courtesy of National for his ability to capture activity and Hispanic Cultural Center. Walter Ufer, “Winter in New motion in his work. He was one of the Mexico”, 56.5 x 51.4 cm, oil on canvas. Courtesy of founders of the Taos Art Association. Harwood Foundation. Agnes Martin, “Midwinter”, 84.3 Dineh (Navajo) painter R.C. Gorman (1931-2005) was as well-known for his colorful personality as for his vibrant canvases filled with softly curved Navajo women and the bright colors of the Southwestern landscape. His work reached international prominence during his lifetime.

Edward Corbett taught art at the 1955 summer session of the Taos Field School of Art organized by the University of New Mexico. Corbett’s work is included in the National Inspired by Einstein’s theory of Gallery of Art. entropy, Japanese and Chinese 19 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

x 122 cm, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Taos Municiple Schools. Ann St. John Hawley, “Meditation”, 36 x 48, mixed media on canvas. Courtesy of 203 Fine Art.

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ESSENTIAL TRUTH & PERSONAL VITALITY: THE TAOS MODERNS

by Judith Kendall

The vastness of external space and crystalline quality of light provided a cradle for those determined to speak with a new visual voice. Taos is a place where the Moderns were free to mind their own spaces.

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s is more often the rule than the exception, artists whose contributions were neglected and underappreciated in their lifetime, begin to stand out and be understood in the decades following their deaths. One such group to gain recent national attention is the Taos Moderns.

Modernism is a term applied to a variety of mostly abstract styles, which are often idealistic and individualistic.

Modernism seeks originality, trying to shake loose from influences of the past.

In the early part of the 20th century an influential group of painters now considered Early Moderns or New Mexican Modernists, found their way to the new literary and artist colony in Taos, started by New York heiress Mabel Dodge Luhan. The artists included Andrew Dasburg, Marsden Hartley, Rebecca Salsbury James, Ward Lockwood and John Marin.

Following the end of World War II an even more diverse influx of avant garde artists began. Armed with a renewed expansive spirit, this group came from New York, San Francisco and points in between. They converged with fresh ideas of post war American abstraction and changed how Taos and its art were viewed.

Each artist shared a determination and maverick sensibility to find their own vision, to make art that was filled with essential truth and personal vitality. Unlike earlier artists who captured realist images of people and the landscape (such as the timelessness of Pueblo culture and deep connection to the land noted in the everyday life of both Native Americans and Hispanics) the Taos Moderns sought to capture an essence from their environment, an inner vision.

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School, attracting veterans on the GI Bill. Ribak transposed his urban landscapes into abstractions of the Western panorama and later into more Thomas Benrimo arrived lyrical abstract expressionistic in 1939 and created highly paintings. evolved surrealist paintings, a Bea Mandelman arrived with far departure from his acclaimed her husband, Louis Ribak, illustration beginnings. fresh from creating murals from oining some of the earlier Moderns who initially were mentors for European Modernism, the following is a sampling of the newcomers:

Agnes Martin, reputedly the most important 20th century female artist, came early in 1947. After leaving and then returning in 1952, she found her vision in the grid, her essential inner emotional form.

the school of social realism for the WPA (Works Progress Administration), to creating totally abstract, often geometric forms referencing Leger, with whom she studied in Paris.

These works were infused with Louis Ribak in 1944 abandoned a Southwestern color sensibility his successful New York career and her passion for seeking to and opened the Taos Valley Art express “the inexpressible.”

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Earl Stroh arrived in 1947 to study at the University of New Mexico’s field school and stayed to be with Dasburg and Benrimo. His spare architectural forms suffused with muted tones offer a unique sense of the vast spatial relationships in the Taos environment.

Oli Sihovenen brought with him in 1949 the influence of Joseph Albers and the Black Mountain College. His elliptical shapes in luminous colors were formed from his time in Taos.

Ed Corbett worked here in 1951 and with intuitive, complex edges of form created a wondrous balance of the positive and negative in his abstractions.

“The longer you stay away (from the urban centers) the better chance you have of becoming an artist.”

—Bea Mandelman

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lay Spohn also came in 1951 from San Francisco and sought to create pure interrelationships of form and color with no literal references.

Visiting artists drawn to Taos included Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Clifford Still and Morris Graves.

The Moderns did not consider themselves regional in any Ted Egri arrived in the fifties as sense of the word. They were a passionate painter of political genuinely international in both struggles but he soon turned sophistication and stature. to three-dimensional work. His If one can say that everyone relationship with the strength creates his or her own world, it and immutability of Taos stands to reason that the most Mountain acted as a metaphor creative spirits seek the least for the struggle for human generic physical world. Taos dignity he championed in his offered that. It was a world sculptures. generally devoid of urban John DePuy arrived in 1952. detritus and distractions.

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art dealer Eulalia Emetaz, the Taos Moderns understood and embraced the knowledge that they were positioned at the outpost of American art. As Bea Mandelman said, “The longer you stay away (from the urban centers) the better chance you have of becoming an artist.”

The vastness of external space and crystalline quality of light provided a cradle for those determined to speak with a new visual voice. Taos is a place where the Moderns were free to mind their own spaces.

L to R: Louis Ribak, “Untitled” (Scroll # 46), Ink on Japanese paper mounted on Muslin, 72.75 x 36 3.375. Beatrice Mandelman, “Space Series”, Oil on canvas, 61 x 41.25. Edward Corbett, “Untitled”, Gouche, charcoal, pastel, 18 x 11.9. Earl Stroh, “Red Mirage”, Oil, 39 x 52. Courtesy of Harwood Foundation.

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women of taos: champions of the arts by ariana kramer | photos by lenny foster

Taos women have a history of championing the arts. In 1923 Lucy Case Harwood established the Harwood Foundation. Culture maven Mabel Dodge Luhan brought many elite creatives to Taos. Helene V. B. Wurlitzer collected Taos early works and established Wurlitzer artist residency program. Millicent Rogers created a vast collection of traditional Southwestern art, now the Millicent Rogers Museum.

Women were also in the forefront as art dealers and gallery owners. Jane Hiatt, owner of the Village Gallery, promoted traditional Taos painters. Eulalia Emetaz established La Galeria Escondida in 1948 to represent Taos Moderns and was instrumental in launching many artist’s careers.

The women of Taos continue to play an integral role in the promotion and representation of Taos artists. Many gallery owners are artists themselves, others simply love fine art. Here are some of the women who represent the Taos artists of today.

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Rena Rosequist

Kimberly Webber

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Mission Gallery (575) 758-2861 www.collectorsguide.com/mission “Art and politics are my equal interests: politics being the art of the possible and art being the art of the impossible.”

– Rena Rosequist The Mission Gallery opened in 1962 and has been in the same place with the same management for the past 50 years. It is the oldest existing gallery in Taos, devoted exclusively to fine art. The gallery features Taos Founders, Taos Moderns and present day painters, sculptors, woodcarvers, ceramicists and printmakers.

kimberly webber

Old World Fine Art (575) 758-3969 www.oldworldfineartgallery.com “My works are designed to empower the viewer.”

– Kimberly Webber Kimberly Webber fuses Asian and European classical tech-

Teruko Wilde

Inger Jirby

niques to create translucent paintings. Webber’s Old World Fine Art features the “Illuminists,” local artists creating cutting-edge light-interactive paintings, combining traditional techniques and materials with themes of quantum aesthetics, sacred geometry, light, mandalas and nature.

teruko wilde

Total Arts Gallery (575) 758-4667 www.totalartsgallery.com “I am an artist first, then a business woman.”

– Teruko Wilde Teruko Wilde, a prominent pastel and watercolor artist, was born in Nagoya, Japan, and moved to Ohio as a teen.

Besides publishing a regional arts magazine and a weekly newspaper, in 1998 she partnered with Harold Geller, owner/founder Total Arts Gallery, established in 1969.

The gallery represents both traditional and contemporary artists.

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Anita Ellison

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Inger Jirby Gallery (575) 758-7333 www.jirby.com “My colors are based first on feeling.” – Inger Jirby Inger Jirby was born above the Arctic Circle in Kiruna, Lapland. Her painting is influenced by the colorists and abstract expressionists. Jirby opened her gallery 13 years ago, and she calls it the biggest adventure of her life. The gallery features her own work as well as a sculpture garden with pieces by other artists.

anita ellison

Act I Gallery (505) 758-7831 www.actonegallery.com “I never dreamed I would own a gallery.” – Anita Ellison Anita Ellison has lived in Taos full time since 1979, and has owned Act I Gallery since 1989. The name came from Art Consultants of Taos. Act I

Donna Heinley

Judith Kendall

Gallery frequently changes exhibits, which include oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, bronze, jewelry, beadwork, ceramics, turned wood and wind sculptures. Several artists have been with the gallery for decades.

donna heinley

Heinley Fine Arts (617) 947-9016 www.heinleyfineartsw.com “Being an international art dealer has been the most exciting career I could have imagined.”

– Donna Heinley Donna Heinley began her career by working for a family in Paris with a vast collection of post-impressionist paintings. In her late 20s, the Boston Globe featured her as an example of a woman who broke into the exclusive art market. Since 2011, Heinley Fine Arts in Taos represents contemporary artists, 19th century French Barbizon masters, Beatrice Mandelman and other Taos Moderns.

Victoria Stevens Walden

Diana Miller and Wendy Lacome

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Fenix Gallery (575) 776-8167 www.fenixgallery.com “I so appreciated the voice of those I represented and felt I could build a clientele for them.”

– Judith Kendall Judith Kendall has lived in Taos since 1977 and was owner/ director of the Fenix Gallery as a physical space from 1989 to 2009. Her Fenix website features many Taos Moderns and nonrepresentational artists who live and work in Taos.

She also offers tours of artists’ studios.

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Walden Fine Art (575) 758-4575 www.waldenfineart.com “I believe that art is an essential part of the expression of the human spirit – we need it.”

– Victoria Stevens Walden Victoria Stevens Walden, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, says art is an important outlet for the expression of emotions: 47 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

grief, joy, pain, elation, longing. Since 1990, she helped run her mother’s gallery, before buying the 25-year-old Alexandra Stevens Gallery in 2003. The gallery represents 20 artists including painters, sculptors, ceramicists and jewelers.

diana miller and wendy lacome

Copper Moon Gallery (575) 758-8833 www.coppermoongallerytaos.com “I met so many great people looking for representation – I thought, ‘Well, let’s give it a try.’”

– Diana Miller Diana Miller sold art for 20 years in New Orleans before she moved to Taos as an evacuee of Hurricane Katrina and partnered with Wendy LaCome to start Copper Moon Gallery.

The gallery represents both well-known and little-known painters, jewelers, sculptors, ceramicists and drummakers from Northern New Mexico and Colorado.

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BJ Briner

“Lilac Nights on the Rio Pueblo” Mixed Media 9" x 12"

119 Kit Carson Road, Taos 575-758-3255 www.wnightingale.com www.bjbriner.com 51 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

Sage Fine Art 10 great artists 1 great gallery Barbara Bartels Troy Brown Joseph Ciaglia Salvatore Giglio Alan Heuer Marian Jackson Elizabeth Jose Lynn McLain Carol Mell R J Pfammatter 115C E Taos Plaza • 575 758 9396 • www.SageFineArt.com 52 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

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Barela’s Traditional Fine Art

Making Authentic Taos Arts Since 1934

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(575) 779-5720 barelaart.webs.com 124A Paseo del Pueblo Sur

Visit the studio and home of Leigh Gusterson on the high road to Taos!

Also offering painting workshops and one day art retreats.

By appointment 575-587-1990 leegee@newmex.com www.leighgusterson.com 54 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

Lisa Trujillo “Sum of the Parts” Natural dyed, hand dyed and commercial dyed wool tapestry 48" x 72"

946 St Rd 76, HCR 64 Box 4, CHimayo, Nm 87522 505.351.2180 Fax 505.351.4008 centinela@newmexico.com www.chimayoweavers.com 55 55 •• www.galleryguideoftaos.com www.galleryguideoftaos.com

MISSION GALLERY Celebr ating our

50

th

Anniversary

with a show of new work by

Stephen Quiller

Jill McElmurry

Kate López

Mark Adair

Mary Hoeksema

9.22.12 - 10.14.12

138 KIT CARSON ROAD TAOS NM (575) 758-2861 renarose.taos@gmail.com www.collectorsguide.com/mission

William S. Arms International Sculptor

575-613-0042 armstaos@q.com

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The Historic

JOHN DUNN HOUSE SHOPS

Taos’ finest shopping experience: 20 locally owned stores line a beautiful pedestrian walkway linking Bent Street and the historic Taos Plaza. www.johndunnshops.com 57 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

Andrew & Lorrie Garcia

2009 Best of Show

2009 Archbishop’s Award

Custom Spanish Colonial Arts 1325 State Road 75 • Peñasco, NM 87553 (across from Picuris turn off) Studio open by appointment • 575-587-2968

lorriegarcia85@hotmail.com highroadnewmexico.com

David Sullins North American Artist www.sullinsart.com "Fine Art for Mankind" Please come see my art at: TAOS ARTIST CO-OP - Oils, Watercolors, Drawings & Books (between Michael's Kitchen & Brodsky's Books) 575 751-7122

ENVISION GALLERY - Printmaking, Monotypes, Contemporary (Overland Complex - 3 mi north of plaza) 575 741-1211 58 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

For Taos Studio Tour Call 575-737-9070 59 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

The UPS Store

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“I spend a lot of time in my “mailing ministry” of sending out books and icons.

I appreciate the exceptional service from Jeanne at The UPS Store.™” –Father Bill “The Taos Gallery supporting local businesses, highly recommends Jeanne at The UPS Store.™ for your shipping needs!” –Jan Mellor

Make us your resource for: • Shipping Services • Next Day Air • Mailbox/Fax Services • Signs/Pet Tags • Business Cards

• Packing Services • Office Supply • Copying & Binding • Laminating

We’re Experts in Packing & Shipping of Artwork, Collectibles, & Your Valuables…

Your Shipping Source Locally Owned, Nationally Known

Historic mural by the famous caricature artist Arthur Allen Jones on permanent display at The UPS Store.™ Features notable Taos characters from more than a quarter century ago.

The UPS Store™ 1335 Paseo del Pueblo Sur • Taos, NM 87571

575-758-8647 • (fax) 575-758-8667 New Location Between Days Inn and Super 8

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ARTIST INDEX

Abbate Anthony 25 Adair Mark 56 Adams Ansel 11 Adee Sharon 61 Agius Jim 67 Alexander Lorraine 10 Allalunis Bob 39 Alyse Frank 15 Anderson Carolyn 67 Anglada Carla 51 Anglemire Geraldine 61 Angulo Nancy 6 Applegate Sandy 10 Aragon Joseph 54 Archer Amber 10 Archuleta Ned 24 Arvid Thomas 26 Atkinson Coco 61 Atkinson Christopher 61 Baca-Rosetta Dinah 42 Backus Susan 39 Ballard Sandy 61 Barela Daniel 54 Barela Luis 54 Barela Carlos 54 Barela Antonia 54 Barela Jessica 54 Barela Carlos 39 Barela-Rael Pat 54 Barkley Barbara 22 Barlock Carolyn 67 Barsano Ron 25 Bartels Barbara 52 Batterton Robert 10 Beasley Beck Paul 61 Becker Regina 25 Bedien Jo Anne 26 Beilfuss Kevin 67 Benrimo Thomas 56 Berberian Ovanes 67 Betz Suzanne 25 Binford-Bell Jacqui 6 Bisttram Emil 56 Blackmun Kathryn 61 Blanchard Pamela 22 Blaustein Sharyn 22 Bleifeld Stanley 67 Blumenschein Ernest 52 Borenstein David 25 Branchal Chris 51 Brett Dorothy 56

Artists listed alphabetically by surname. Corresponding number represents either the gallery representing the artist or the artist’s personal advertisement.

Briner BJ 51 Davis Rhonda 6 Gold Liz 61 Howard Heather 61 Brown Roy 6 Davis William 5 Gomez Bruce 24 Howarth Katrina 25 Brown Vernon 10 Davis William 10 Gonske Walt 13 Howell Rick 67 Brown Troy 48,52 Davis Audrey 10 Goodwin Gail 12 Huston Ann 9 Gootgeld Steven 5 Ignatov Ignat 67 Brownrigg Elizabeth 22 Dawson Doug 67 Bryer Diana 39 Day Stephen 51 Gootgeld Steven 10 Immel Peggy 51 Bunn Timothy 3 De La Noe Adeine 51 Gorman R.C. 11 Immel Steven 51 Burciaga Ernesto 61 De Nicola Issa 25 Gott Susan 26 Irizarry Bien 51 Burnham Julie 22 DeKeuster Joanne 68 Grant Coni 51 Ives Julia 51 Busch Ruzina 61 DeKeuster Kevin 68 Graves Valerie 51 Jackson Marian 52 Byrne Barbara 61 Delap-John Sally 61 Green Lance 25 Jacobsen Patricia 10 Cafazzo Robert 53 Denison Debbie 61 Guillerm Philippe 26 Jaramillo Bernie 61 Calhoun Magi 22 Ding Shang 67 Guthrie Arlo 3 Jasper-Vogel Lynda 26 Cameron Sheena 25 Dukepoo Michael 39 Haddaway Ed 41 Jimenez Juanito 61 Candelaria Doug 10 Duran Robert 61 Hall NWS Lane 67 Jirby Inger 41 Cantrell Shiela 61 Durland Gerret 61 Haller Helga 42 Johnson Jane 61 Carlson George 67 Durland Tracy 61 Halsey Jeanne 42 Johnson Merel 61 Castagnet Alvaro 67 Ealy Anastasia 61 Hamil Joyce 10 Johnson Douglas 36 Caudillo Brian 41 Egri Ted 22 Hanrahan Karon 61 Johnson Doug 26 Caulton Donna 61 Elliott Ken 67 Hansen Peter 51 Jones Paula 51 Caulton Donna L. 42 English Kim 67 Hansen Peter 51 Jonson Raymond 56 Cavan Jennifer 6 Epp Phil 51 Hapainanu Constantine Jose Elizabeth 52 Chappell Walter 11 Evans Sally 26 34,35 Jury Lana 3 Chrisman Michel 51 Evelyne Boren 15 Hardy Linda 61 Karsh Yousef 11 Chrisman Michelle 26 Ewing Charles 10 Hargis Nancy & Mark 10 Keffer Jim 10 Christopher Scott 61 Ewing Gifford 26 Harmon Barbara 52 Keheley Kristine 22 Ciaglia Joseph 52 Ewing Louie 56 Hart Allan 24 Kennedy David Michael 15 Cisneros Tony 2 Fabric Embudo 61 Hasbrouck Richard 61 Kennedy Danielle 51 Cisneros Lisa 2 Fahrbach Ruth 61 Hatton Tom 26 Kilgour Midge Teston 61 Cisneros Anthony 10 Faries Jerry 39 Haworth Beau 61 Kilgour Phil 61 Clair Donna 10 Farnsworth John 5 Hayes Arlene LaDell 10 Kirk Pamela 6 Clasgens Marcia 61 Farrar Lynn 25 Heald Suzanne 42 Kobayashi Milt 67 Cloutman Michael 20 Fick Jorge 56 Heartwell Lee 10 Kollar Dr. Ed 6 Cobb Stan 24 Flood Debbie 6 Henningsen Chuck 11 LaCome Paul 10 Coley Kemper 51 Fogg Don 3 Herbel Carolene 48 Lage Joel 51 Collins Charles 3 Forbes Anne 39 Herrera Nicholas 15 LaGro Randall 26 Connors Diane 10 Ford Sylvia A. 6 Hettinger David 67 Lamkin JK 67 Cook Howard 56 Foster Lenny 32 Heuer Alan 48,52 Lampl Dorothy 51 Cooley Bobbie 51 Founders Taos 56 Hewitt Gary 26 Launer Ali 26 Cornelius Ray-Mel 10 Freyne Maureen 61 Hewitt Rick 41 Lawrence Frieda 52 Corning Alice 56 Funk Sandy 61 Higgins Victor 52 Leard Ronald 61 Couse Irving 52 Gala Jacqueline 10 Hilton Robert 61 Lee Trisha 61 Cox Sandy 39 Gallegos Carlton 39 Hoback Priscilla 41 Leffel NAWA David A. 67 Craft Sharon 10 Garcia Lydia 39 Hockenbery Mary 61 Leoffler Gisella 52 Crumbo Woody 52 Garcia Andrew & Lorrie 58 Hoeksema Mary 56 Levin Eli 52 Currier Erin 36 Garcia-Gonzales Juliet 61 Hoeksema Ron 56 Liang Weizhan 67 Curtis Edward S 56 Garoutte PJ 25 Holbrook Laura 6 Liermann Geraldine 42 Daggett Ken 10 Gentry Judy 51 Hollingshead Mat 51 Liu OPA Huihan 67 Dancebow Paul 24 Gersh Bill 11 Holmes Elodie 26 Livingston Annell 34,35 Dasburg Andrew 56 Giglio Salvatore 52 Horik Stefan 26 Locke Bill 24 Datz Stephen C. 10 Girón Claudia 61 Horne James 10 Lohan Erica 24 64 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

Lopez Arthur 36 Lopez Kate 56 Lopez Ron 11 Lopukhova Ludmilla 51 Lostetter Al 51 Lovato Ray 39 Loyd Bill 61 Lujan Lee 24 Lujan Ira 11 Lujan Antonia 39 Lujan-Hauer Pam 10 Lujan-Tseme Antonia 24 Luplow Eric 61 Lury Carolyn 61 Luther MC 51 Lynch Kit 61 Lynch Jennifer 5 Lyon Mary K. 42 Maestas Bianca 51 Maestas Humberto 51 Maestas Huberto 26 Mahka Ron 56 Malone Lois 61 Mandelman Bea 15, 52 Mapes David 5 Markeson Bobbie 10 Marshall Jake 50 Martin Bella Sue 39 Martin Agnes 52 Martinez Jose 61 Martinez Roxanne 61 Martinez Doreen 61 Massey Marie 25 Mathieu Dédée 22 Mayer David 67 McAfee Ila 52 McCarthy Lynne 51 McClain Lynn 50,52 McCuan Barry 25 McCullough Susan 51 McDermott Katherine 6 McDermott Kevin 24 McElmurry Jill 56 McGivern Peggy 10 McKellar Jerry 26 Mckenzie Wayne 10 Medina Clarence 10 Mell Carol 52 Messmer Reto 22 Meyer Edgar 51 Meyers Ouray 49 Mieshiel 22 Miller Shiela 61

Miller G.L. 10 Miller Maryna 24 Milosevich Deborah 25 Minks Louise 51 Mirabal Eva 52 Miro Michael 26 Miro Michael 11 Mole Richard 11 Mondragon Concha 61 Mondragon Jason 24 Montgomery David 25 Montoya Irene 61 Moon Marvin 51 Moore Jeri 10 Moore Jan 10 Morbillo Frank 34,35 Morel Chris 67 Morgan Ed 10 Moroles Jesus 11 Morris Iva 10 Morton Brad 34,35 Moulthrop Philip 10 Moulthrop Matt 10 Mullaney Susy 39 Murray John 22 Murray Scott 61 Mynarcik Jill 51 Nemo 51 Nes Margaret 51 Newman Charlee 36 Nez Theresa 39 Nichols Richard Alan 26 Nichols Jean 61 Nightbird 24 Okonkwo Nmamdi 10 Oliver M. 34,35 Ortega Isabro 61 Ortega Nick 10 Ortiz Velia 61 Osborne John Phillip 67 Oviedo Patricia 61 Palaski Mary Lou 10 Paulk Jo Anne 42 Pavletich L. Martin 6 Perkins Jeffrey 56 Pfammatter RJ 52 Phillips John David 67 Pollard Pat 51 Porter Dean 56 Potter Joan 67 Prescott Fredrick 41 Price Ken 52 Pryor William 56

Pulos Cris 51 Quiller Stephen 56 Rael Daniel 39 Rath Carol 10 Reading Margery 34,35 Reed Doel 56 Renwick Robert 51 Ress Spike 67 Reyna Diane 24 Reyna Sharon Dryflower 24 Reyna Phillip 24 Reynolds Robert 24 Ribak Louise 52 Rickert Paul 67 Riedel David 67 Riggs Kathy 33 Rink J Madison 51 Robinson Pricilla 22 Robles-Shaw Catherine 39 Rogers Millicent 52 Rohrig Mark 26 Romero Dulcie 61 Romero Mary Jane 61 Rose Elizabeth 34,35 Ross Carole Sue 34,35 Rudy Sandra and Steven 61 Rusnell Elizabeth 56 Rusnell Wesley 56 Russell Gail 42 Sadler Tom 26 Salazar Ernesto 54 Salazar Leonardo 54 Salazar Jacob 54 Salazar Ricardo 54 Salin Wendy 10 Salles Connie 61 Sanchez Emilia 61 Sander Sherry 67 Sandifer Rosie 67 Sandoval Casa 61 Sandoval Ed 9,26 Schoonover Beverly 56 Scott Doug 23 Senkarik Mikki 25 Sessler Jan 34,35 Sharp Joseph Henry 52 Shewnack Barbara 6 Shimonek Mick 51 Shorty Robert 24 Shorty Dawning Pollen 24 Shorty Eddy 56 Shroyer Charlotte 22 Sievers Holly 53

Siltala Sarah 51 Vandeboom Suzanne 12 Silverman Burton 67 Vargas Mario 54 Sinclair Daniel 67 Vaughan Virginia 10 Sisneros Jennifer 24 Vedoe David 51 Skinner Marsha 36 Vigil Dan 51 Sleep Allegra 51 Vigil Paul 24 Smith Cletus 10 Vigil Gray Darren 56 Smith Kathlenn 51 Smith Joshua 26 Viles Pat 15 Snead Stella 52 Vinella Ray 51 Sobol Jonathan 51 Vito Teresa 51 Soo Kang Yi 34,35 Waddo 34,35 Sparno Rosemary 61 Wagner Rory 26,51 Spellman Steve 10 Wagner Jim 11,36 Spencer Ken 67 Spooner Marcus 11 Waldis Venja 56 Stahl Cheryl 61 Wallis Scott 51 Stapper Cindy 10 Warmday Jonathan Star Kevin Red 56 24,39,52 Stauffer Larry 34,35 Warner Mary Ann 10 Steibach Robbie 51 Wesley Ron 39 Steigerwald Mary 61 Wheeler Tom 10 Stephens Fredrick 22 Stiles in Clay 26 Wheeler Thom 26 Stroh Earl 56 Wheelock Seymour 10 Stroh-Miller Judith 51 Whitaker Lyman 22 Suazo John 11,24,39 Wilbanks Mary 22 Sullins David 22,58 Wilde Teruko 67 Summers Richard 61 Williams Betsy 61 Sweet Glenn 10 Tafoya Judy 42 Williams Roger 10 Tafoya Dan 24 Williams Gordon 34,35 Tate Jane 22 Windsor Lynne 25 Taylor Elise 39 Winnubst Hubertus Q. 22 Taylor Cydney 34,35 Witkins Joel Peter 11 Teitelbaum Tracy 22 Wolf Pat 51 Teitelbaum Adam 22 Woodall Katie 22 Templeton Ann 67 Textiles Kei & Molly 39 Worman Dinah 10 Thompson Cami 25 Wyatt Kenneth 50 Thomson-Smith Shirley 67 Wyatt Veda 50 Tobey L.C. 3 Wyatt Marshall Jill 50 Toole Narrie 24 Yates Marilyn 67 Torres Maye 52 Yazzie Angie 24 Track Bernadette 24 Traynor Pattie 51 Yeager Doug 51 Trujillo Vivian 61 Yeates Sam 51 Twarogowski Marie Coté 61 Young Jeannine 25 Tyler John 34,35 Zane Bailey 51 Ubechel Shari 4 Zaring Barbara 67 Ubechel Norbert 4 Uelsmann Jerry 11,34,35 Zink Melissa 36 Zopf Dorothy 24 Valerio Ruth 51

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Clarence Medina Studio/Gallery

by appointment: 505.579.4645

“adobe special”

8 x 10

oil

Dixon, New Mexico

Gallery Representation: Clarence Medina PO Box 565 Dixon, NM 87527 505.579.4645

Copper Moon Gallery 105 Kit Carson Road Taos, NM 87571 575.758.8833 66 • www.galleryguideoftaos.com

Worrell Gallery 103 Washington Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.989.4900

Teruko T. Wilde www.terukowilde.com

“Favourite Season II”

36 x 36” oil Established 1969

Total Arts Gallery i n c o r p o r a t e d 122-A Kit Carson Road, Taos NM 87571 • 575.758.4667 • www.totalartsgallery.com An exciting cross section of fine art from traditional to contemporary.

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ENCHANTED CIRCLE

POTTERY WOOD-FIRED POTTERY & SCULPTURE 26871 EAST U.S. HWY 64 LOCATED IN TAOS CANYON between Taos and Angel Fire

and mile markers 268 & 269 dekeusterclay @ gmail.com 575-737-9640

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