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Glenn Dean decided early in life to become a painter and although he took a couple of workshops in outdoor painting, he basically is a self-taught artist.  He chose to self-study the great California artists, particularly Maynard Dixon and Edgar Payne whom he felt painted scenes as they were meant to be painted.  He paints on location and particularly likes the landscapes of the Southwest for subject matter.

In this painting, one's mind cannot help but revert back to Ansel Adams' "Moonrise Over Hernandez," as an inspiration for this title, but the similarities end there.  Dean has beautifully presented the low adobe homes nestled in the foothills of Santa Fe's Sangre de Cristo mountain range.  The homes blend into the landscape with their earth colors and snuggle beneath the pink hues of the sky and the purple of the range.  An excellent representation of the facts that exist.

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