Now open at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos, New Mexico, is Glimpses of the Past: Historic New Mexico Prints, 1880-1950, a new exhibition that will highlight prints and other artwork, much of which has never been seen by the public. Artworks include a variety of techniques ranging from etching and lithography to woodblock printing, linocut, aquatint, serigraphy and monotype.
B. Pat Pattison, Elk Foot, ca. 1930s, linocut, 13¾ x 10½”
More than 50 pieces will be in the exhibition, all of which comes from a single private collection. The works will be on view in the 1830s Luna Family Chapel, which was also Joseph Henry Sharp’s first painting studio in Taos.
“The exhibition is stylistically diverse with examples of academic realism, regionalism, modernism and cubist-inspired abstraction,” says guest curator David Clemmer. “We’ve included work by artists who will be familiar to many, but the primary focus is on the work of lesser-known printmakers who worked in New Mexico for a few years, for a season, or even only for a few days.”
Campbell Grant (1909-1992), Untitled (Taos Pueblo), 1930, woodblock, 6¹/16 x 12”
Artists in the exhibition include B. Pat Pattison, Albert H. Marvin Jr., Leon Pescheret, Howard Cook, John Wesley Cotton, Andrew Dasburg, Charles Capps and many others. Also on view will be works from eight women artists: Dorothy Stauffer, Norma Bassett Hall, Stella MacLean, Elna Hogin, Blanche McVeigh, Rosella de Milhau, Trude Hanscom and Henrietta Dean Lang.
Howard Cook (1901-1980), Tesuque Pueblo, 1926, woodcut, 11 x 9¹/8”
“Some of these artists are largely lost to history, though their artwork is of high quality and provides a fascinating look into days gone by,” says Davison Koenig, executive director and curator at the site.
The exhibition continues through November 6. For more information visit www.couse-sharp.org.
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