Manitou Gallery artist Walter Wilson passed away at his home in Tubac, Arizona, on Friday December 16th. His family was with him, and his passing was peaceful.
Walter completed his last two paintings -- "Young Cheyenne Boy" and "Young Cheyenne Girl" -- for Manitou's recent retrospective show of his work.
Our Canyon Road gallery will continue to exhibit the works of Walter Wilson.
Manitou Gallery at 225 Canyon Road will be hosting two performances of Holiday Caroling by the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus. Join us at 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. for music, hot cider, and Christmas cookies.
The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance selected New Mexico artist Virginia Maria Romero to design the first Conservation Wolf Stamp sold in the United States. The Mexican wolf is the most endangered wolf in the world, with a total population of less than 50 in the wild in 2009.
The Mexican Wolf Stamp is a conservation project created by the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. The concept is similar to the Duck Stamp sold by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, except no hunting will be related to the sale of the Mexican Wolf Stamp. Instead it will raise money for the conservation of the Mexican wolf by funding projects in the U.S. and Mexico for Mexican Wolf Recovery. Stamps can be ordered online at http://www.nmwild.org/current-campaigns/conservation-wolf-stamp/
Join us at our 225 Canyon location this Friday for the opening of Walter Blakelock Wilson's 66 year retrospective! The opening is from 5 to 7:30pm.
Walter Blakelock Wilson is an accomplished American painter whose paintings, spanning over six decades, reveal many important periods in painting history. Influenced by such luminaries as Marsden Hartley, Milton Avery and Maynard Dixon, Walter Wilson’s work reflects a style that is at once both familiar and his own. Inspired as a boy by the paintings of his great grandfather, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Walter took to painting at a very early age, painting his first commissioned work when he was 14. Blakelock the elder was said to be one of the most unique of the Hudson River Valley School painters, which greatly influenced the younger aspiring artist.
Roger Hayden Johnson currently has a painting - Rancho de Taos (2005) - featured in an exhibition at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. The exhibition - "Western American Art South of the Sweet Tea Line" - runs from September 24 through February 12. It features 95 works from 47 public and private collections spread across several Southern states. According to Executive Director Seth M. Hopkins of the Booth Western Art Museum, "More than 1,200 people toured the gallery during the opening weekend and raved about both the scope and quality of the exhibition."
Santa Fe Vineyards has selected St. Francis & His Wild Desert Friends, by Virginia Maria Romero for the label for their New Mexico Merlot - to be released soon. Santa Fe Vineyards is also celebrating this year their 30 year anniversary of winemaking, which they began in 1982.
Saint Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone; 1181/1182-Oct. 3, 1226) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men’s Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history. On July 16, 1228, he was pronounced a saint by Pope Gregory IX. He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy (with Catherine of Siena), and it is customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of October 4.
The Canyon Road Merchants association invites the art-loving public to the Fourth Annual Historic Canyon Road Paint Out on Saturday, October 15, from 10 am to 3 pm. Thirty-six galleries and 90 painters will participate along the entire length of the fabled street. It will be an opportunity to meet the artists, enjoy musical entertainment provided by Santa Fe Public School Musicians at ten different locations and enjoy the magnificence of a crisp October day in Santa Fe. Many galleries will also provide refreshments, including green chili stew at Winterowd, chicken gumbo at Karen Ruhlen, and Frito pies at Ventana. A parade at noon will feature Mayor Coss and the marching bands of three of Santa Fe’s high schools. This year’s Paint Out will have the highest level of participation yet, showing promise to become another treasured seasonal tradition in Santa Fe.
Manitou artists Bruce Cody, Jeff Cochran and Sally Delap-John will be participating in the paint out.
Inner strength: it's a capacity we all posses, yet we may only take its full measure in times of difficulty or danger. In Distant Thunder, the newest art acquisition at the UNM Cancer Center, sculptor Star Liana York makes this elusive quality exquisitely real in the face and figure of an Apache woman preparing to protect herself and her child from harm. "The piece is about drawing on your inner strength to meet life's challenges," says York. "I believe tapping into this strength is just as important as any other therapy when facing a life-threatening illness like cancer."
Star created this piece as a tribute to the spirit of the Cancer Center's patients, families and providers, serving at once as homage and inspiration. The sculpture came to the UNM Cancer Center thanks to the exceptional generosity of its previous owner, Paul and Lucy Roth of Florida (no relation to UNM's Dr. Paul Roth), who donated the piece last fall. The sculpture is installed in a specially landscaped setting at the Center's main entrance.
The quiet intensity of Distant Thunder reflects York's extraordinary skill and distinctive artistic vision that seeks the universal through the particular. "It's by realizing our uniqueness that we begin to connect to everything around us," says York, who lives with her husband in "Georgia O'Keefe country," near Abiquiu. Named a leading artist of the Southwest by Southwest Art Magazine by galleries across the region, York focuses her work on the area's people and animals, especially horses - she was the artist comissioned to create the horse forms for The Trail of Painted Ponies exhibit. York moved to New Mexico from Maryland in 1985 not so much for the landscape or culture, she admits, as for access to a wonderful foundry. "But what I've found here is an incredible, unending source of inspiriation," she says. "I'm still discovering so many things."
Imagine a trove of more than 300 paintings, some dating back to 1532. This isn’t a collection you’ll likely ever get to see in one spot, but Polish police have uncovered hundreds of paintings in a 92-year-old bricklayer’s shed.
The bricklayer can’t speak due to recent strokes, but there seems to be speculation that some of the works could be among those looted by the Nazis from Poland. How they got into the shed remains unknown. The Telegraph UK’s story and video are here.
Governor Christine Gregoire, First Gentleman Mike Gregoire and the Governor’s Mansion Foundation Art Curators present a solo exhibition by the artist Z.Z. Wei. The exhibition showcases the artist’s recent paintings at The Executive Mansion in Olympia Washington. The exhibition opened on Thursday, May 19, 2011 with a private reception and lecture by the artist and will be available for public viewing at the mansion through May of 2012. Mansion tours are available to the public with reservations.
Each year this special honor is bestowed upon a Washington State artist whose art work exemplifies the spirit of the great state of Washington. Having dedicated over 20 years to painting the Northwest, Z.Z. Wei is honored to participate as this year’s guest artist with 10 specially curated paintings. The visual story-telling is unique among landscape painters, as the artists depicts the beauty of the Northwest by rendering a meandering road, an undulating field, or a dramatic use of light casting shadows upon a Washington cityscape. Sculptural forms envelope his compositions and intrigue the viewer to look beyond their natural boundaries.
Z.Z. Wei has received well deserved recognition throughout the United States with his evocative art and is iconic in his depiction of Washington state landscape and genre painting.
Z.Z.'s works will also be on display at the United States Embassy in Libreville, Gabon.
Santa Fe Vineyards has selected St. Francis & His Wild Desert Friends, by Virginia Maria Romero for the label for their New Mexico Merlot - to be released soon. Santa Fe Vineyards is also celebrating this year their 30 year anniversary of winemaking, which they began in 1982.
