MODERNIST THEMES IN NEW MEXICO [SOLD]

MODERNIST THEMES IN NEW MEXICO - Works by Early Modernist Painters

Introduction by Barbara G. Bell

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe

Softcover, first and only edition, 1989, features 12 New Mexico artists from the past

The artists who travelled to New Mexico and settled were an astonishingly cosmopolitan lot.  Several—like Nordfeldt, a Swede—and Bisttram, who was a Hungarian— were born abroad. Most were well trained as artists in one way or another.  Most of this group of artists, in fact, had been abroad to Paris or elsewhere in Europe, some even across the world. The artists who came and formed the tight-knit northern New Mexican artistic community, which flourished between the wars and later, were as diverse as the styles they developed and brought with them.  Not all, of course, were painting in the modern idiom, but it is undeniable that many of the most talented and interesting of these painters were.

Artists Featured

Frank Applegate

Józef Bakoś

Tom Benrimo

Emil Bisttram

Howard Cook

Andrew Dasburg

Raymond Jonson

Ward Lockwood

B.J.O. Nordfeldt

Cady Wells

Frank Myers

Russell Vernon Hunter