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