Posted on 05/10/2018 1:05:21 PM PDT by mairdie
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-1986). Bach's Concerto in C - Op 8 No 6 for her early work. Amherst Saxophone Quartet's Eubie Dubie and Jazzentials of Bach's Toccata and Funk and Choral in D minor for her New York and Lake George years. And R Carlos Nakai's Echoes of Time and Native Flute Ensemble's Summoning Winds for her New Mexico years.
My uncle Epihany or “Piffy” was Jerry’s father’s brother. He was the drinker and the wanderlust of the clan and a polygamist evidentially as his travels through that country required that he marry Indian women to ensure safe passage through Comanche and Apache territories. I have heard that he had 3 or 4 wives at the same time
I’m so very glad you like it, Aqua. You were the only one that saw it in mid-making.
Just catching my breath, then I’ll start collecting Egyptian tomb art. The CD of ancient Sumerian and Egyptian music just arrived half an hour ago. First problem is setting up the organization before I start stuffing the images in.
Yes, Basque country! And proud of it. I knew many of them and my Dad had sheep dealings with some. I can’t remember first names right now.
The Archuleta family was/is very prominent in Abiquiu, Canjilon, etc.
After Picasso passed
They gathered up all his work hanging around his home and other works folks donated for the traveling display
1st place it showed was South Korea.
President moved out of their Blue House to allow the exibit to be there
Wow so much art in so many ways
Also have been to her art museum in Santa Fe
Infinite thanks, Cat. You’re what makes the work worthwhile.
Thanks for sharing that neat story. They were beyond tough and resilient people. As you know, being Spanish is still proudly emphasized.
I can’t handle the pressure!!!!!!! LOL!!!!
Later in about 1880 or so, Jerry’s grandparents were run off a nice spread next to good water by men supposedly stealing stock for John Chisum - that is anecdotal and there exists no documentation for that
Now I remember...Johnny Archuleta was my Dad’s friend.
That was amazingly kind of the president. I hope they treated his home with the respect it deserved while they were setting up the display. I’ve always tended toward his Blue and Pink period. Once he starts adding anatomy, he loses me.
We’ve been to the museum, too. Santa Fe is one of my favorite places, along with Sedona. There was a Mexican restaurant in SF that we returned to every time we visited. And the hardware store!! NEVER have I seen so many varieties of trowels. And the fact that wetting down adobe was a profession! WONDERFUL!
Love isn’t pressure. It’s just plain love. And there’s a lot of it here. Send me a photo private mail then. I’d love to see what the next excitement in your life is going to be. Creating something from nothing is the most marvelous feeling.
That’s interesting.
People like Catron in NM did a lot of deals (steeling) of land from people such as your ancestors. And others such as a Gonzales family member I knew of, were complicit in doing the same.
There is a lot of neat history in and around Abiquiu.
Do you live in NM?
Well, remember, the video is chronological so you’re watching her style develop. She tries things out in bunches, then tries something else. Much more of an experimenter than some of the artists I’ve shown before. You look at some of the surrealists and they redid their art years later and you know it was for the money. When she redoes the same piece years later, you feel like she’s trying to get it right THIS TIME! What amazes me is how long each experiment has to take. Think of that compared with what we now can do with computers. How much faster we can work and how much more we can twiddle.
Agree with you on some of the early watercolors. I’ll find a few of my favorites later paintings to post. We might disagree there, too, because I really love simple clean lines. I was raised by an art deco mother who drew lines in Chicago dirt and made me explain what she’d drawn and finish them in my head.
In about 1940 they moved to Los Angeles for the work and it is where we remain today.
All this history. Seems to me like it’d make great film or tv miniseries - then again, I suppose modern people would rather pay money to watch grown men and women run around in their pajamas fighting aliens and such. Really a shame because when we’re gone - the history goes with us
Yes, I was a young guest at a dinosaur dig being conducted by Edwin H. Colbert, of the American Museum of Natural History, near O’Keeffe’s ranch. I met her on the veranda of her ranch house. I didn’t fully realize who she was at the time (I was 14), I told her I was an artist too, and she told me to “Practice, practice, practice.” I did and later became a graphic artist doing pen & ink drawings for books, designing book and magazine covers, etc. Not much of a story, but that’s all I have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA9HiTeF7D4
If it sounds a half tone "off", it's because the link I posted is recorded in Baroque turning. (i.e. A=415, rather than the modern A=440)
It’s very good that you know about your ancestors and appreciate them and rightfully are proud of them.
They would not be happy with what’s going on today.
THAT’S WHY YOU WRITE IT DOWN!!
AND PUT IT ON THE WEB!!
AND GET IT ARCHIVED UNTIL THE PEOPLE WHO DO APPRECIATE IT ARE AROUND!!
I do vast websites of historical stories and interview people about their stories. Ask me anything about interviewing techniques and videos about things like that that you could do. My specialty was directing amateurs.
And I love people in their pajamas. Like Doris Day. Or fighting aliens in their PJs. We can love them all.
My mother had a photographic memory. She could tell you the jokes her U of Chicago college professors told. And with that incredible mind, she played mental games. Like memorizing the license numbers of passing cars or the serial numbers of money she handed cashiers. And when she was dying, she asked me how everything she knew could just disappear. That’s when I became bound and determined to put everything I know onto the web. I’ve got 15,000 pages on my personal site and another 15,000 pages on my Henry Livingston site.
This is how you avoid having history go with us.
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