Continuum: Light, Space and Time

The Harwood Collection: Blumenschein to Bell. For over a century, Taos has been a destination of artist émigrés, drawn to an aesthetic rooted in the landscape and its ancient Native American and Hispanic cultures that for centuries have shaped an overarching narrative for Taos and northern New Mexico. The matrix of this pervasive narrative is the region’s unique high desert aesthetic. Taos, as place, is a sublime experience: at one extreme is its daunting vastness, its overpowering beauty; at the other, its humbling human dimension. The paradox of the Taos aesthetic is this fusion of lofty and humble, of high and low styles that defines the artistic and cultural continuity of the wide range of works in the Harwood collections.

“Here, the mark of the earth was on the people “ (Van Deren Coke).

Thanks to curators Gus Foster, Alexandra Benjamin, and Gustavo Victor Goler.

Exhibition list for Continuum in the George Foster Gallery:

1      Karl E. Moon 
South Pueblo (with additional pencil drawing), 1905
Gelatin silver print
2010.0006.0042
 
2      Ansel Adams
Taos Pueblo, 1929    
Gelatin silver print
Purchase with a grant from the
New Mexico Council on Photography Fund
2016.0008.0000
 
3      Martin E. Hennings   
Stringing the Bow, c. 1924    
Etching          
Gift of David B. Winton and Estate of Helen Hennings Winton
1995.0082.0000
 
4      W. Herbert Dunton     
Old Taos Man of the Pueblo, 1930
Lithograph     
Courtesy of Taos Municipal School Historic Collection         
L2012-1(32)
 
5      Edward S. Curtis      
North Pueblo at Taos,  1925  
Photogravure
Gift of Gus Foster
2013.0258.0000
 
6      Joseph Imhof
Adam Trujillo, early 20th Century
Graphite, charcoal, white chalk and gouache on paper        
Anonymous Gift
2012.0071.0000
 
7      Cady Wells    
Untitled, 1935
Watercolor on paper  
Courtesy of Taos Municipal School Historic Collection         
L2012-1(98)
 
8      Victor Higgins
Fish Ponds, 1930s     
Watercolor on paper  
Gift of Mrs. E. Martin Hennings
1994.0032.0000
 
9      Earl Stroh      
Green Hills, c. 1948-49
Crayon and ink on paper
Courtesy of Taos Municipal School Historic Collection         
L2012-1(91)
 
10   Howard Cook
Tio Vivo, 1949
Black and white lithograph    
Anonymous Gift
2012.0079.0000
 
11   Clare Leighton          
Lambing (Second State), 1933          
Wood engraving
Gift of C. William and
Eleanor Reiquam
1999.0025.0000
 
12   Oscar E. Berninghaus          
Wood Haulers, 1945  
Ink      
Courtesy of the Taos Municipal School Historic Collection
L2012-1(8)
 
13   Emil Bisttram
Church of San Francisco de Asis, n.d.
Watercolor on paper  
Courtesy of the Taos Municipal School Historic Collection
L2012-1(10)
 
14   Louis Ribak
White Rocks, 1950s   
Watercolor and ink on paper
Gift of the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation
2010.0018.0015
 
15   John S. Candelario
Spanish Girl, 1949    
Gelatin silver print
Harwood Museum Collection
1981.0066.0000
 
16   Charles F. Quest
Still Life with Etching Press, 1949
Etching and aquatint 
Gift of C. William and
Eleanor Reiquam
1999.0028.0000
 
17   Wolcott Ely    
Untitled, 1958
Charcoal on paper     
Gift of Rosa Ellis Clark
1987.0012.0000
 
18   Robert Rauschenberg
Autobiography, 1968 
Offset lithograph
Promised Gift 
TD2016.11
 
19   Gary Mauro   
Shards, 1974 
Pencil on paper         
Gift of Jane Lipman
1980.0300.0000
 
20   Gene Kloss
Desert Drama,  1977
Etching and aquatint
Anonymous Gift
2011.0045.0007
 
21   Oscar E. Berninghaus
Street Scene Taos, c.1930
Lithograph
Gift of Van Deren and Joan Coke in memory of Caroline Lee
2003.0035.0000
 
22   Martin Shaffer
La Fonda Hotel, 1944
Gelatin silver print
Courtesy of Taos Municipal School Historic Collection
L2012-1(87)
 
23   Willard Nash
Taos Plaza, c.1920
Lithograph
Museum Purchase
1994.0005.0000
 
24   Gordon Baldwin
Post Card From Santa Fe, 1982
Ink on vellum
Given by the artist in memory of Ivan Rosequist        
1985.0003.0000
 
25   Kevin Cannon
Drawing for Potato Wrestler, 1986
Graphite on paper
Gift of Gus Foster
2013.0210.0000
 
26   Bill Gersh
Untitled, 1980s
Mixed media on paper
Gift of Sherman and Joyce Scott
1995.0060.0000
 
27   Earl Linderman
Dr. Thrill on Top, n.d.
Watercolor on paper
Gift from Wade Stackhouse Trust
2014.0037.0000
 
28   Angie Coleman
Santa Barbara Canyon, 2007
Woodblock print
Courtesy of New Mexico Committee of National Women in the Arts  
2007.0008.0000
 
29   Greg Moon
Winter on Cuchilla, 2008
Gouache and prismacolor on paper
Gift of the Artist
2012.0008.0000
 
30   Zoe Zimmerman
Sweet Peas, 1990
Albumen print photograph
T2007-021
 
31   Ken Price
Unreported Sighting, 2003
Intaglio print
Commissioned by the Harwood Museum of Art
2004.0004.0004
 
32   Marc Baseman
Untitled, Standing Figure, 1997
Graphite on paper
Gift of Gus Foster
2013.0156.0000
 
33   Wes Mills
Big Bike Goes Bad, c.1995
Graphite on paper
2013.0090.0000
 
34   Annell Livingston
Nest Drawing/ Adobe, n.d.
Graphite and gouache on paper
Gift of the Artist in memory of Derek Byron Steele and Lance Marlon Steele
TD2016.12