Special Value Offer: Original Watercolor entitled “Sunlight over Adobes” [SOLD]

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New Mexico is a magic place for the spiritual and artistic people that have come to visit and stayed because of its wilderness and natural beauty. The mixture of Native American, Hispanic, and European American inhabitants creates a unique state unlike any other in the United States. In New Mexico, these talented visitors found a powerfully attractive exoticism from the low-rise adobe structures and churches to the rich mixture of food. They were captivated by the clean air and constant sunshine. These visitors were the early 20th century artists who settled in Taos and Santa Fe. They partied, socialized and painted to their heart's content.

Today, New Mexico is still unique among the other states of the Union. It has dragged its feet, refusing to abandon its cultural heritage and richness and simple ways of life even as attempts have been made by newly arrived residents to modernize its cities with glass and steel buildings, snubbing their noses at the humble adobe structures that make New Mexico towns special. It is why New Mexico exists as it does that draws artists to paint it. Surely one would not paint the golden egg silver.

Tom Perkinson is one of the young artists who came to New Mexico and fell in love with what he saw and has now lived here for 45 years. He moved to New Mexico to pursue his Master's Degree in Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, and, while doing so, painted the landscape, which started his fascination with southwestern imagery. He found that the drama of light and shadow, and the mystery that characterizes the geography of New Mexico, held great appeal to him. He recognized that he had found an infinite source of inspiration in the panorama of the southwest landscape. His paintings reflect his skill and mastery of this challenging medium, watercolor. Those of us who are not artists owe a great debt to those who are preserving the beauty of New Mexico for us and for the future as it is surely to change over time.

This watercolor painting exudes the quality of light of New Mexico and the massiveness of the sky and afternoon clouds. The old adobe building is snuggled down on the mesa to a point that it seems to be part of the earth, which, of course, it is. Perkinson has captured the scene magically.

Condition: appears to be in original condition but has not been examined out of the frame.

Provenance: from the collection of a gentleman in Reno, Nevada