Whether in a private garden, museum, bank, hotel or restaurant, it is quite likely you will find yourself marveling at bronze sculptures during your stay in Santa Fe. These works of art are an integral part of the beauty and spirit of the city and there is no better place to enjoy bronze sculpture than […]
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We know you’re anxious to start touring Santa Fe’s galleries and museums, but you don’t even have to leave your hotel to experience a taste of the local art scene. Several of Santa Fe’s best hotels have fine collections of work by New Mexico artists. They are worth checking out, even if you’re not staying
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by Dr. Mark Sublette Shapes of Fear, Allegory, Earthknower, Pickets, and Scabs were just a few of the great works painted by Maynard Dixon during a time of great social unrest, change and struggle in the United States. The great depression, Maritime strikes, and a flood of migrants to California were just some of the defining
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The beauty of New Mexico seen through the eyes of the Western master by Dr. Mark Sublette Maynard Dixon arrived in New Mexico with Charles Lummis for the first time in September of 1900. He stayed for two and a half months documenting everything he saw and experienced. New Mexico’s architecture, ethnic mix, and old
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Maynard Dixon is considered by many Western art collectors to be their premier artist Maynard Dixon’s ability to capture the West and its inhabitants, in a nonjudgmental and honest way, has left an indelible legacy. The Maynard Dixon Museum, while not in New Mexico, is a little less than an hour flight from Albuquerque to
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Medicine Man Gallery’s new home by Michael Ettema, Director Medicine Man Gallery Santa Fe It’s one of the best locations in Santa Fe.” So said Mark Sublette, owner of Medicine Man Gallery, when the quaint, old house on the corner of Canyon Road and Paseo became available five years ago. As anticipated, the location helped
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Why novelists David Morrell, Michael McGarrity, Jo-Ann Mapson, Mark Sublette and more live in Santa Fe by Wolf Schneider Santa Fe’s current novelists range from the guy who created Rambo to a best-selling history writer to a handful of mystery writers, including a former cop, an established women’s author, and an art-gallery owner launching a
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Santa Fe is a leader in the national trend of keeping our food local and sustainable Nobody would mistake New Mexico for Iowa. In our mountainous and arid environment, “amber waves of grain” do not readily spring to mind. Nevertheless, farming has been crucial to New Mexico’s inhabitants for 3000 years. Prehistoric hunter/gatherers in what
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Past, present, and future together in three new facilities in downtown Santa Fe On Memorial Day Weekend, 2009, twenty years of work came to fruition with the opening of The New Mexico History Museum. In a place where history is ever present, it is somewhat surprising that this is the first museum dedicated to telling
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Learn about the history of the West’s most picturesque city “All the buildings are brown…but it’s so beautiful!” a first-time visitor to Santa Fe recently exclaimed. Although this response is typical for today’s first- timers, early visitors seldom had such a favorable first impression. More often they found the little village of simple, mud structures
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