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Although the location chosen by the artist for this painting is not noted, nor is the date she painted it noted, it appears to have been painted in a Northern New Mexico mountain area in the beginning of wintertime.  Sabo loved painting mountain scenes, aspen trees, snow, and creeks or rivers.  It is quite possible that this was painted in an area of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range at Santa Fe. Her best paintings incorporate snow, a very difficult subject to paint.  Achieving various colors of snow in shadows is extremely hard to achieve but Sabo was a master at doing so.

Betty Jean Sabo, who passed away only a couple months ago, was one of Albuquerque's most famous contemporary artists. She was a student at some point of Carl Von Hassler, probably in the early years of her career. She was best known as a painter until later in her career at which time she switched to sculpture.  Her paintings were so popular they were snatched up before the paint dried.

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