Straight from Picasso’s studio! Check out our latest artwork by the modernist master here.

Alice Webb‘s monotype of the iconic San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church in Taos, New Mexico gives us a sense of the surrounding landscape.

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Max Bruning, Untitled (Portrait of a Lady), Etching and Aquatint.

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We just added bigger, brighter images of our John McHugh collection to the website! Check it out here. 

Shiprock, Toshi Yoshida. 

More New Mexico-inspired art here. 

Super cool! A collector just sent this shot of two Randall Davey lithographs he acquired. They're a perfect pair in their new home! #art #artist #artworld #arthistory #installationview #prints #printmaking #worksonpaper #litho #artgram #instaart #instaarthub #artgallery #gallerylife #monochrome #santafe #santafenm #santafeartcolony #simplysantafe #howtosantafe #newmexico #newmexicogram #newmexicotrue #newmexicoigers #newmexicolove #landofenchantment #canyonroad #canyongram (at Matthews Gallery)

“I had never seen sunsets like that, ever. You just don’t see them in the Midwest; there’s too much moisture.” Taos artist Barbara Brock on moving to New Mexico. 

“All my works [consist] of a dialectic between the conscious (straight lines, designed shapes, weighed color, abstract language) and the unconscious (soft lines, obscured shapes, automatism) resolved into a synthesis."

On Robert Motherwell's 100th birthday (b. Jan 24, 1915), check out this Motherwell print that passed through Matthews Gallery and read a blog about it from our archives. 

Randall Davey, Girl Arranging Her Hair, Lithograph. 

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 “Alfred Morang was one of the few people who encouraged me in my abstract expressionism,” said Janet Lippincott (1918-2007), one of Morang’s  best-known pupils. Lippincott came to New Mexico in 1946 and studied at the Emil Bisttram School for Transcendentalism in Taos. Bisttram was a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group (1938-1942), a collective of abstract painters with a spiritual, non-political approach to art, for which Morang served as press secretary. Santa Fean Magazine interviewed Lippincott for an article on Morang in their April 1978 issue:

Read about more artists who were influenced by Alfred Morang here. 

Holiday card from two of our awesome collectors, one of whom also happens to be a lovely linocut artist (we had no idea, Rick!). Aren't their cats adorable? #cozy #adobe #simplysantafe #howtosantafe #santafe #santafenm #newmexico #cats #catlovers #internetcats #art #artist #artworld #artgallery #gallerylife #newmexicotrue #newmexico #newmexicogram #newmexicoigers #blue #santafenewmexico #instaart #artgram #instaarthub #worksonpaper #prints #printmaking #printmaker (at Matthews Gallery)

Forrest Moses, Irises, Monoprint. 

"Profoundly influenced by Japanese aesthetics, Moses embraces the principle of wabi-sabi: the realization that things become more beautiful as they decay, age, and transition. In this way, the marks of his oil paintings and ink-based monotypes reference the practices and philosophies of sumi-e ink masters. He seeks, in his own words, "to discover nature’s truth and give life to a painted image by understanding the rhythms and pulses behind appearances.” As such, his works stress brevity and simplicity to magnify the intensity of his expressions—underscoring the importance of negative space or nothingness as a juxtaposition to objects that presently exist."

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