JOSEPH HENRY SHARPS 1/3 – He was born in a September day, 1859 and lived a long life (with a prolific career as a painter best known for his realistic portrayal of the American Indians). Over his lifetime, Sharp had produced around 10,500 works of art. He was the first painter to visit New Mexico, before Phillips and Blumenschein made …
Read More »JOSEPH HENRY SHARPS (1859/1953), AMERICAN PAINTER – A long life, next to the American Indians
NEW MEXICO INNER LANDSCAPES
LISTENING TO THE BREATH OF NEW MEXICO
Taos Pueblo, Native American song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-miNPmlwE Mescalero Apache War Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pef6ktVa_6o Squaw Dance Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJz6oFcEFg Flamenco Dance Performance in Sandoval County, New Mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-b0o0GRw4c Gene Booth New Mexico’s Country Music Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inz23hC6wUcù
Read More »THE SEA OF GRASS – By Conrad Richter
He simply tells how he thinks things were for both Indians and whites, in a hard time of violence and danger and change on a raw frontier. He was an American novelist, whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. Conrad Michael Richter, as a child, he lived with his family in several …
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EVENING IN NEW MEXICO – Poetry by Andrew Downing Far off the Rio Grande crawls, a silver serpent in the sand. And sweetly, softly, slowly falls the shade of twilight on the land. The mockingbird, that all the day has piped, entangling note with note, in merry song, and roundelay, has quelled the lyrics in his throat. In meditation, buried …
Read More »THE ROUTE 66 IN NEW MEXICO – Among the Hopi, Zuni and Navajo, waiting for the sunrise over El Morro
California and Arizona are behind us. Driving along Route 66, we have not forgotten what is useful, walking on the roads of New Mexico (one of the places to be discovered across the continent most fascinating American States and wealthy): backpack, water bottle filled with water, hat and a good map. Its capital, Santa Fe, is a multicultural city that …
Read More »RUDOLPH CARL GORMAN (1931/2005), NAVAJO PAINTER – Fluid forms and vibrant colors
SOUNDS AND COLOURS OF ARIZONA
HARMONICA ” ARIZONA ” Country Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYfV-QIv4U Sky Blue, Young Sounds of Arizona 7 O’Clock Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpz4wAnEwo Alabama Shakes – Don’t Wanna Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5OX7CO26c Memoryhouse – Arizona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbatT32qQQ
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