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Jamie Chase 2012 Show
Jamie Chase, “Sasha Reading” Our annual solo show for Santa Fe abstract figurative painter, Jamie Chase opens Friday, July 27, with an artist’s reception from 5-7pm at the gallery. The show runs from...
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CLOSE-UP: Kate Rivers opening recap
Kate Rivers with guests at the Variations opening *Click here to read our first blog about Variations* Our opening for Kate Rivers’ “Variations” show was about to start, and Linda was giving everything...
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NEW TRADITIONS: Matthews Gallery Online Art Auction
The world’s oldest auction house opened in Stockholm, Sweden in 1674. Art auctions in Great Britain gained popularity a few decades later when the Earl of Oxford’s collection appeared on the block in...
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SEEING SIDEWAYS: Jamie Chase’s “Figurative and Landscapes”
The front door of Jamie Chase’s house opens to his studio, a sprawling room that’s furnished with a squashy couch, a drum set and an easel. Leaning near the door is a small painting that looks...
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START YOUR BIDDING: Colorful lots from our fall online auction
Our European, American and Southwestern Art Auction just started on Artfact.com, and it features a particularly vibrant line-up of lots. The charming image above is a color lithograph from turn of the...
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SMALL TREASURES: Can’t-miss lots from our fall auction
We picked a particularly electrifying time in the art world to throw an auction. A triptych by Francis Bacon just flew off the block for a record-breaking $142.2 million, and the...
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LET THE HUNT BEGIN…
Click to view slideshow. “Where did you get that?” That’s a common question among Canyon Road visitors when they see historic work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Salvador Dali and other...
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SHOOTING SPARKS: Frank Morbillo’s Elemental Process
Frank Morbillo sanding his sculpture Sprung As we learned in his NEW HORIZONS show, sculptor Frank Morbillo is inspired by the way the elements carve the canyon lands of the American West. It’s...
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THE LUMPKINS LEGACY: Bill’s Last Request
William Lumpkins Jr. next to his father’s serigraph “Abstract Landscape #3“ At last Friday’s opening of NEW MEXICO MODERNS: The Lumpkins Files, William Lumpkins Jr. was a quiet presence. He stood to...
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Jamie Chase ‘POV': Reflections
Jamie Chase with ‘Idyll‘, ‘Time is Still Luminous‘ and ‘Balance‘ It seemed like all of Santa Fe attended last Friday’s opening for ‘POV: New Paintings by Jamie Chase.’ Our front room was a swell...
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COLLECTOR’S FORUM: Join the Network
Seats are filling up for our free COLLECTOR’S FORUM workshops, which begin next Friday as part of the Santa Fe Gallery Association’s Art Matters lecture series. The events have already given us the...
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MORANG AND FRIENDS: Alfred in Paris
Alfred Morang, 1952 “After Morang’s death, all of a sudden people started to realize that he was a great artist. People regretted that they didn’t pay enough attention to him,” Santa Fe art collector...
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MORANG AND FRIENDS: Ghost Stories
“There are ghosts at El Farol, there’s no question about it,” says Freda Keller with a playful smile. “There’s been a lot that’s happened over the years. In 1835 there were gunfights in the bar....
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MORANG AND FRIENDS: The Toast
If the last two weeks at Matthews Gallery were an Alfred Morang painting, the cover image of this week’s Pasatiempo would be a good representation. Energetic figures dance between brightly colored...
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Expanding Dialog: Notes from Frank Morbillo
Each of Frank Morbillo’s sculptures takes many hours—and hundreds of miles—to create. The Tesuque artist’s creative process begins far from his studio, on long hikes through the canyon lands of the...
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New Mexico Connections: Hondius and Cowles
From top: Cowles, Dasburg and Hondius You’d be surprised at how often we find New Mexico links in the biographies of our historic artists, even if they never lived here. The latest paintings to appear...
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SPRING OF MODERNISM
We’ve had some unseasonably warm days after last weekend’s snowstorm, and it’s making us excited for the end of winter. It’s the perfect time to release our spring exhibition schedule, which is a...
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PICTORIALISM: From Stieglitz to Curtis
It was 1901 in New York City, and photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was busy preparing an exhibition that would shake the foundations of the art world. He had worked for years—often to the...
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NEW ARMORY: Modernism’s Western Frontier
A severe sculpture by Andrew Dasburg, which appeared in the 1913 Armory Show, contrasts with his soft pastel snow scene that will appear in SPRING OF MODERNISM. The 102nd annual Armory Show opens in...
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SPRING OF MODERNISM: Paul Burlin
As our SPRING OF MODERNISM exhibition approaches its closing date on March 31st, we’re sharing the incredible stories of 20th century artists who shook the foundations of the New Mexico art community....
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