A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and Public Art in New Mexico

She is currently an editor for Sunstone Press. in American literature from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and in the early 1960s taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and at San Francisco State University. Hoefer received a Ph.D. After Peter Hoefer's death in 1987, she carrie

They came from everywhere, from Maine to California and a few from Europe. Boyd, Manville Chapman, Ruth Connely, Regina Tatum Cooke, Fremont Ellis, Louie Ewing, Joseph Fleck, William Penhallow Henderson, Victor Higgins, Nils Hogner, Allan Houser, Odon Hullenkremer, Peter Hurd, Raymond Jonson, Gene Kloss, William Lumpkins, Maria and Julian Martinez, Ila McAfee, Helmuth Naumer, B.J.O Nordfeldt, Sheldon Parsons, Eliseo Rodriguez, Olive Rush, Juan Sanchez, Howard Schleeter, Eugenie Shonnard, Will Shuster, Walter Ufer, Theodore van Soelen, Pablita Velarde, Harold West, Brooks Willis and others. Help came from Washington. Then, as the artist Louie Ewing said, 'the jobs ran out.' No matter what you were willing to do, there was no work, and nobody was buying pictures and pots. Artists began coming to New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. How did artists, traditionally

Flynn, grand dame and tireless promoter of New Mexico New Deal art, in the early 1990s. One minor omission is data on Boris Deutsch, an artist who worked in New Mexico for the Department of the Treasury's Section of Painting and Sculpture, and who produced the mural Indian Bear Dance in 1940 that graces the lobby of the post office in Truth or Consequences.'' --Charles Bennett, New Mexico Magazine, January 2004 . A final section offers further references on the artists whose work is illustrated in the book. Canon artist Patrocino Barela, 'the star of the WPA Art Program in New Mexico,' the author offers, was the last New Mexico artist removed from the payroll. ''One of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal 'alphabet agencies' designed to bring relief during the Great Depression was the Public Works of Art Project, or PWAP, later metamorphosing into the Federal Art Program

An intriguing slice of American culture and art A story of a unique time and place where colorful cultures blended to create a magical display of public art that is unique to the New Mexico region. As a big fan of the New Deal projects that include much of the rustic lodge-type architecture in our National Parks, this boo