FALL OF MODERNISM: The Modernist Impulse

“Wonderful place. You must come. Am sending ticket. Bring me a cook.” Mabel Dodge Lujan’s telegram to artist Andrew Dasburg is a seminal moment in New Mexico art history. Lujan, a prominent arts champion from New York, had fallen in love with the Taos art colony and was determined to summon artists there from the East. The efforts of Lujan and her counterparts in Santa Fe and Albuquerque sparked…

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Eric G. Thompson: New Works

Eric G. Thompson‘s new series of contemporary realist paintings arrived yesterday. As we pulled them from the box one by one, silenced by their cool gravitas, we saw them in a whole new way. First came a solitary bird in a tree, silhouetted against a pale sky. Was he watching the pensive girl strolling through the field that emerged from the package next? Perhaps she was headed to the barn in the…

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It’s a beautiful spring here in Santa Fe, and Lawrence has been busy refining the program for this Friday’s Collector’s Forum Workshop. These free events are for anyone who’s ever considered buying, selling or caring for fine art and has questions about the inner workings of the art world. Read on for a sneak peek at Lawrence’s art collecting tips, and contact us to reserve your seat at the workshop. The event takes place at Matthews Gallery on April 17 at 5:00 pm.

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Randall Davey was a true Renaissance gentleman: he made paintings, prints and sculptures, played cello, built a polo field on Upper Canyon Road and was always dressed to the nines (even when he was painting in the hot sun).

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Jozef Bakos, Untitled (New Mexico Landscape), Watercolor.

"Cezanne's work had a big influence on Bakos. Childhood friends and fellow students, Walter Mruk and Augustine Korda, accompanied him to a traveling show of Western art by The Society of Men Who Paint the Far West. There for the first time he saw the works of Taos artists E. Irving Couse and Ernest Blumenschein. Bakos started painting impressions from this show..."

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