2021 Calendar: Art in the Archives

2021

Calendar

Art in the Archives

C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Peleliu Landing

Sketch, “Going In - First Wave,” Peleliu Landing, Hertzog book collection

Tom Lea (1907 – 2001) was an El Paso artist, muralist, and writer. During WWII, he was a war correspondent and artist for Life magazine. This sketch is included in Lea’s book Peleliu Landing, which was printed by Carl Hertzog in 1945.

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January 2021

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Friday New Year’s Day

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Día de los Reyes Magos (Epiphany)

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

El Paso Herald-Post Records

Photograph of Woody Crumbo, El Paso Herald-Post records, MS348

Woody Crumbo (1912 – 1989) was a Potawatomi artist and the curator and director of the El Paso Museum of Art during the 1960s. In this October 1966 photograph, he is restoring The Thundering Herd (1919) by Edward Hoslag at the El Paso airport.

Sunday

February 2021

Monday

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Valentine’s Day

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Groundhog Day Día de la Candelaria

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Presidents’ Day

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Mardi Gras

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Ash Wednesday

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Purim

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Chinese New Year

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Marcela Varona Artworks

Marcela Varona is a UTEP alumna and artist originally from Chihuahua City. Her collection at the UTEP Library includes works that she created while attending UTEP.

Marcela Varona artworks, MS596

Sunday

March 2021

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Palm Sunday

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Daylight Savings Time Begins

Wednesday

International Women’s Day

Texas Independence Day

C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

St. Patrick’s Day

César Chávez Day

Vernal Equinox

Passover Begins at Sundown

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The University of Texas at El Paso Library

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El Paso: A Borderlands History

Illustration by José Cisneros for El Paso: A Borderlands History by W.H. Timmons (Texas Western Press, 2004), Rare book collection

Award-winning El Paso artist and illustrator José Cisneros (1910 – 2009) is best known for his historical drawings of Texas and Mexico. This drawing depicts a scene from the Mexican Revolution. Cisneros also designed the seal for Texas Western College (now UTEP) and illustrated many books published by Texas Western Press during his long and prolific career.

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Easter Sunday Passover Ends

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National Library Week Begins

Ramadan Begins

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Good Friday

Saturday

National Library Workers’ Day

C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Tripp Map Collection

Map of Gallaecia Regnum, circa 1600, by Gerardus Mercator, Tripp map collection, MS649

Many early maps contain artistic elements. This map was created from a copper engraving and then hand-colored. The Tripp map collection dates circa 1600s – 1950s and includes original maps as well as reproductions. The maps are from various locales around the world.

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Mothers’ Day

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Mexican Mothers’ Day 10

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Memorial Day

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Ramadan Ends

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Cinco de Mayo

Eid Al-Fitr

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Hal Marcus Papers

Notecard, El Mercado Juárez, Hal Marcus papers, MS411

Hal Marcus, an artist and gallery owner, was born in 1951 in El Paso, Texas. His art can be found in the UTEP Library, the El Paso Public Library – Main Branch, Temple Mt. Sinai, the Chamizal National Memorial Theater, and the El Paso County Courthouse. A large print of El Mercado Juárez (1988) hangs in the UTEP Library.

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Fathers’ Day

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Juneteenth

Summer Solstice

C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

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UTEP by William Kolliker

UTEP by William Kolliker, UTEP Library art collection

Born in 1905 in Switzerland, William Kolliker moved to New York City at age 16 and later settled in El Paso.

In addition to his career as the art director and art editor of American Weekly, Kolliker particularly enjoyed painting desert landscapes of the southwestern United States. Special Collections houses some of Kolliker’s sketches and scrapbooks in its William Kolliker collection, MS659.

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Independence Day

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

Bastille Day

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Elsie McElroy Slater Papers

Sketch, Elsie McElroy Slater papers, MS272

Elsie McElroy Slater (1871?-1952) was a writer, artist, and naturalist. She wrote a column for the El Paso Herald and authored two books: El Paso Birds and Thirteen Ferns of the Mexican Border at El Paso. Slater was the first El Pasoan to collect plant specimens in El Paso.

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August 2021

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

Women’s Equality Day

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Urbici Soler Collection

Photograph of Urbici Soler teaching an art class at Texas Western College, Urbici Soler collection, MS037

Born in Spain, Urbici Soler (1890-1953) was a renowned sculptor and art professor at the College of Mines (later Texas Western College and UTEP). Soler moved to El Paso in 1937 to create the sculpture Cristo Rey on Mount Cristo Rey, and after a brief absence, decided to make El Paso his permanent home.

Sunday

September 2021

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Labor Day

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Rosh Hashanah Begins at Sundown

C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

Yom Kippur Begins at Sundown

Autumnal Equinox

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Mexican Independence Day

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Beauty . Chaos

Metal and slate forms by Rachelle Thiewes, Beauty ¡ Chaos, Carl Hertzog book collection

This 1999 book includes charcoal drawings by Susan Davidoff and text and a metal cover by Beverly Penn. Thiewes, Davidoff, and Penn all taught in the UTEP Art Department. The metal and slate forms are comprised of silver, 18K yellow gold, and carved slate.

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Halloween

October 2021

Indigenous People’s Day

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

El Paso in Block Print

Mount Franklin by Johnell Crimen and Ysleta Mission by Mary Jo Robinson, El Paso in Block Print by the 2B Art Class, El Paso High School, Rare book collection This publication was created by art students at El Paso High School during the early 1930s under the direction of Mrs. Eula Harlacker.

Sunday

Monday All Saints’ Day Día de los Muertos

Daylight Savings Time ends

Chanukah Begins at Sundown

November 2021

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All Souls’ Day Día de los Muertos

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

Veterans’ Day

Thanksgiving

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The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Eugene Thurston Papers

Holiday card by Eugene Thurston, Eugene Thurston papers, MS669

Eugene B. Thurston (1896 – 1993) painted landscapes of the southwestern United States for more than 70 years. He also ran a greeting card business that sold cards with his artwork on them for many years. Since the late 1920s, he was active in organizing El Paso’s arts community and was a founding member of the El Paso Arts Guild, Far Southwest Artists, and the El Paso Arts Association.

Sunday

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Day

Kwanzaa (ends Jan. 1)

December 2021

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Christmas Eve

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New Year’s Eve

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Chanukah Ends

Winter Solstice

C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

Christmas Day

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

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Sunday

January 2022

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Saturday New Year’s Day

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

Día de los Reyes Magos (Epiphany)

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Sunday

February 2022

Monday

Tuesday

Chinese New Year

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Wednesday

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Groundhog Day Día de la Candelaria

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Valentine’s Day

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Presidents’ Day

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C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department

The University of Texas at El Paso Library

Art in the Archives

C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department Cover images: Art from the Mago Orona Gándara papers, MS584. Margarita “Mago” Orona Gándara (1929 – 2018) was a celebrated artist of the El Paso – Ciudad Juárez Borderlands. Gándara was known for incorporating Borderlands themes and Aztec mythology into her murals and sculptures.

This calendar features art and artists from the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department’s archival holdings. In addition to managing the UTEP Library’s art collection, Special Collections contains papers from local artists and collections relating to El Paso art.

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