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FBL Resources

Art: Painting, Sculpture, and Pottery

For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on painting and sculpture in New Mexico and the Southwest.  Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.

Categories in this guide:    Reference     New Mexico and the Southwest     Taos and Santa Fe     Native American
                                              Spanish/Hispanic     Biography   Georgia O'Keeffe    Other (furniture, prints)

See also the other guides in this series on    Art: Architecture          Ar t: Photography         Design and Motifs

Reference

Encyclopedia of World Art  (17 v., 1959-1987)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 v., 1971)

New Mexico and the Southwest

Art of the State: New Mexico
Artists of New Mexico
Artists of the Canyons and Caminos: Santa Fe, The Early Years
Artists of 20th-Century New Mexico
Contested Terrain: Myth and Meaning in Southwestern Art
Flow of the River (published by NM's Hispanic Culture Foundation)
In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O’Keeffe
Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West
"Into the Neon Sunset," (Udall, Sharyn), New Mexico Magazine, 63:7 (July 1985)
Jerry Bywaters: A Life in Art
Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle
Myth of Santa Fe (Wilson, Chris)
New Deal in the Southwest  (WPA  suppor t for artsts in Arizona and New Mexico)
Printmaking in New Mexico
Southwest in American Literature and Art
"Wilson Hurley and the Grand Landscape," New Mexico Magazine,
    63:5 (May 1985)

Taos and Santa Fe

Beatrice Mandelman, Taos Modernist
Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony
Gene Kloss: Master Printmaker
Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West
Paintings and Sculpture of Nicolai Fechin
Pioneer Artists of Taos
Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses, 1900-1942
Santa Fe and Taos, 1898-1942: An American Cultural Center
Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942
Taos Moderns: Art of the New
Taos Society of Artists

Native American Art and Artists

Anasazi and Pueblo Painting
Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990
As in a Vision: Masterworks of American Indian Art
Creativity is Our Tradition: Three Decades of Contemporary Indian Art at the Institute
    of American Indian Arts
Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians
Early Years of Native American Art History
Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery
From This Earth: the Ancient Art of Pueblo Pottery
I Am Here: Two Thousand Years of Southwest Indian Arts and Culture
Indian Arts and Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy
Indian Arts of New Mexico
Institute of American Indian Arts Alumni Exhibit
Legacy of a Master Potter: Nampeyo and her Descendants
Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965-1985
Native Arts of North America
Navajo Sandpainting
Pueblo Artists Portraits
Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century
"Side-splitting Fun: These Artists Enjoy a Good Laugh," New Mexico Magazine,
    77:8 (August 1999)
Talking with the Clay: the Art of Pueblo Pottery
This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity

Spanish/Hispanic Art and Artists

Cambios: the Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art
Chicano Art
Colonial Frontiers: Art and Life in Spanish New Mexico  (Fred Harvey collection)
Flow of the River (published by NM's Hispanic Culture Foundation)
Mexican-American Artists
New Mexico Santos
New Mexico Village Arts
Saints and Saint Makers in New Mexico
Santos and Saints
Santos, Statues and Sculpture: Contemporary Woodcarving from New Mexico
Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art in the American Sunbelt States
Spanish Textile Tradition of New Mexico and Colorado
Traditional Arts of Spanish New Mexico
Vehicle Art and Transportation in New Mexico
What is a New Mexico Santo?
Wood Carvers of Cordova

Biography

The Fort Library has works about the following artists associated with New Mexico and the Southwest.  In PONI, search the name as Subject (books about) and as Author (books by, including collections of artist's work).

Baumann, Gustave (1881-1971)
Barela, Patrocinio (1908-1964)
Bywaters, Jerry (1906-1989)
Boyd, E. (1903-1974)
Cannon, T. C. (1946-1978)
Dasburg, Andrew (1887-1979)
Dixon, Maynard (1875-1946)
Fechin, Nicolai (1881-1955)
Fleck, Joseph A. (1892-1977)
Frank, Alyce (1932-
Gorman, R. C. (1932- )
Hartley, Marsden (1877-1943)
Houser, Allan (1914- )
Imhof, Joseph (1871-1955)
Kloss, Gene (1903-1996)
Mandelman, Beatrice (1912-?)
Marin, John (1870-1953)
Martin, Agnes (1912-    )
Martínez, María Montoya (188?-1980)
Nampeyo (ca. 1856-1942)
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) * see below
Peña, Tonita (1893-1949)
Phillips, Bert Geer (1868-1956)
Shuster, Will H. (1893-1969)
Sloan, John (1871-1951)
White, R. Lee

Georgia O’Keeffe (1877-1986)

"Are O'Keeffes Real McCoy or Pigment of Imagination?" [Canyon Suite], Dallas
   Morning News, February 20, 2000, p. 1, 24-A. [at Fort, see Regional
    Information binder on Art]
"Discovering an Unknown O'Keeffe," [untitled work, known as "Desert Abstraction"],
    New Mexico Magazine, 62:11 (November 1984)
"FBI Investigating 28 Works Sold as O'Keeffe Originals," Dallas Morning News,
    February 23, 2000, p. 3-A [at Fort, see Regional Information binder on Art]
From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon
Georgia O’Keeffe (Eldredge; Library of American Art series)
Georgia O’Keeffe: Arts and Letters
Georgia O’Keeffe at Ghost Ranch
Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
Lovingly, Georgia
Miss O’Keeffe
O'Keeffe at Abiquiu
O’Keeffe, Stieglitz and the Critics, 1916-1929
Woman on Paper
"O'Keeffe's Place," (Duvert, Elizabeth), Journal of the Southwest, 30:1 (Spring 1988)

Other

"The Art of the Carpintero," New Mexico Magazine, 63:4 (April 1985)
    [in Home advertising section]
Carpinteros and Cabinetmakers
New Mexico Furniture, 1600-1940
Prints of the West
 
 

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