In the early days of the 20th century, La Fonda Hotel, at the end of the Santa Fe Trail, situated on the Santa Fe Plaza, displayed paintings in their guest rooms by New Mexico Indian painters of the period. These original paintings were removed in the early 1960s-probably because their values had increased but justified as a result of remodeling. The paintings were sold at that time and, occasionally, one or more appears on the market, usually identified by the frame, if the frame had not been changed. This painting by Romando Vigil (1902-1978) Tse Ye Mu - Falling Cloud has the indication that it was one of the ones in La Fonda, in that in the lower left, in pencil, is marked R-320 94-A. Now, of course, this is speculation that it was in room 320 in La Fonda but we have verified that La Fonda has a room #320. It is not in the original La Fonda frame.
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