...On the Art World
Artists Are Getting Old
I
got a lunch offer the other day from an old friend whom I had
not seen for a while. He’s an important artist, and everyone has
him atop their A list...
Don't You Just Love A Guy Like This?
An Indian who posed frequently for E.
I. Couse was a mix of Apache and pueblo named Joseph Sunhawk. He
was seventy-nine in 1980 when I first interviewed him...
Honesty Made Me Do
It
A few years
ago this postal inspector, wearing the ugliest tie I ever saw
(his mother must have given it to him or he wouldn’t be wearing
it) walked right into my office like he owned it...
Once In a While I Do Something Right
Many years ago I was
working at a gallery it Taos. It was newly remodeled and we were
having our gala grand opening...
Santa Fe Bohemia
The book signing took place
near the top of Lower Canyon Road at Argos Etchings and
Paintings, there on the left, next to Ed Larson’s gallery, whose
large sign reads “Jesus Says Buy Folk Art.”
Well, What Would You Have Done?
A few years ago a
friend asked me to try to sell a painting for him. He was going
through a divorce and………well, you know! It was a 16” x 20”
Victor Higgins oil...
What the
Hell's Wrong With This Guy?
I looked on the back
of a painting the other day and was startled to read, in big
letters, THIS PAINTING MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT
……..blah, blah, blah. I couldn’t believe it...
What's With
This Artist's Proof Stuff?
Now let’s get real
about this for crimanny sake. Artists’ proofs are experiments
that lithographers and etchers pull from plates as they play
around with different inks...
Women Can Be So Unreasonable That Way
We had this sweet,
young salesgirl (you can call a female a girl until she’s twenty
or after she’s sixty-five but not in-between) working at the
gallery who was almost perfect for the job. |
Forrest Fenn autographing a book at the San Lazaro Pueblo |
...On Archaeology
The Mother of Indian Jones
The mass media in this country well know the rules. When
an archaeological discovery is made, all but the most compelling
stories go to the bottom of the page...
Indiana
Jones Talks Back
About 750 professional
archaeologists and anthropologists paid $125 each to attended
the “Clovis and Beyond” conference held in Santa Fe last October
(1999)...
...On My Life
Eulogy for Mike
Kammerer
I wondered what I
could say at a time like this about a man like Mike. And then I
thought about the time...
Flywater
There comes a time
(maybe it's an age) when all of us reflect on happenings that
marked our passage through the brakes and thickets of life...
My War
For Me
These emotions are not so much
what I have written but what I have thought, and all of
it through the weakness of my words.
When the Vietnam War came along...
...On My
Collection
Early American
Dolls
An old Crow
Indian woman, who was born about 1865, said that when she was a
little girl, her family was "so poor she didn't even have a
mother:"
...On San Lazaro
Pueblo
The Secrets of
San Lazaro Pueblo
The author of this
somewhat unusual self-published book is a very unusual man. A
fighter pilot in his youth, Fenn took opportunities to work as
an amateur on archaeological digs in the US and overseas...
A
Telling Story
Tents and
blowing laundry now punctuate the countryside around San Lazaro
Pueblo where only yesterday the cholla and kosha weeds were
king... |
