Galisteo Clear

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Morning / Sun and Moon

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Vista / East (left panel)

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Vista / South East (center panel)

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Vista / South (right panel)

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Aspen Stand / Sangre de Cristo Range

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Distant Range

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High Summer / Perennial

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Big View to Cerro Bonanza

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Composition / Black Mesa

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Long View to La Bajada Hill

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Night Over Calle de Rio Plateau

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Monsoon Season / Green Hills

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Monsoon Season / Golondrinas

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Gypsum Cliffs / Abiquiu Valley

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Primary Jemez

Summer Solstice / Perennial

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Bright Afternoon / La Bajada / One

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Bright Afternoon / La Bajada / Two

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Spring Fields / La Bajada

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El Rancho de las Golondrinas

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Blue Mountain

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Alameda Spring

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Pedernal Gray

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Storm Over San Felipe

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Early Spring / The View East to La Cienega

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Early Spring / View to the River

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Road to Lyden / Changing April

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Pasture / New Green

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Spring Field / Looking South

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Pedernal / From the High Mesa

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Pasture / Early Spring / Abiquiu

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Three Aspects

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View to the Lava Fields / San Felipe

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Lake View / Pedernal

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Winter Snow / Nambe Badlands

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Placer Spring

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Lake View

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Long View to Pajarito

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Sandia Blue

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Winter Tree Stand / La Mesilla

Treeline / Abiquiu

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Mercurial Noon

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Down From Truchas

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Winter Range / From Santa Clara Pueblo

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Winter Storm / Black Mesa

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Placer Mountain Gray

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Dawn / Sun and Moon

Road To Lyden / Autumn

Storm Approach / Los Barrancos

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Autumn in a Halcyon Year

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Tree Line / View South / Abiquiu

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Winter Cottonwoods / Abiquiu

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Winter / Cerro Bonanza

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Nambe Badlands West

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View to Truchas Peak from Santa Clara Pueblo

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View to the River / La Cienega

Autumn Fields / Abiquiu

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The View East to Cerro Bonanza Four

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Autumn Tree Stand / Jacona

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Pedernal / View to the Lake #3

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Blue Pedernal #2

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The View East / Espanola Valley

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To Dream of the Jemez

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The View West / Miami

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Bright Afternoon / Springer

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Dusk / Miami

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The Gate at “Point of Rocks”

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From the Mesa

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Early Morning / Galisteo Basin

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Pedernal / View to the Lake #1

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Pedernal / View to the Lake #2

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Morning View South

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Ghosts / The White Place

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The View East to Cerro Bonanza Three

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View West to La Solute

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Sunrise / Nambe Badlands

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Cliffs at Otomi

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Bright Afternoon / Pedernal

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Morning / Black Mesa

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View to Caja de Rio Plateau

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An Afternoon Clarified

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Summer Bosque / Road to Lyden

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Summer Arroyo / San Felipe

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White Cliffs / Abiquiu

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Afternoon / Galisteo Preserve

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Afternoon Showers / Ghost Ranch

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High Desert Clarification

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Valley Travel / Abiquiu

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Alameda

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Controlled Burn / El Rito

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Low Stratus / View to the North

High Water / Abiquiu Reservoir

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Showers Over Rio Chama

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Sandia Blue

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Canyon Showers / Abiquiu

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A Glimpse to the River

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San Felipe / After the Rain

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Bright Day / Ghost Ranch

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Frog Song

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Winter Tree Stand / La Mesilla Three

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Blue Paternal

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Long View to the Sandias

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Clear Day / Paternal

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View South From La Bajada

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Spring Fields / Abiquiu

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Canyon Showers

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From Paseo de la Cuma

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Last Snow

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Abiquiu Inn / Cottonwood Grove

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Sangre de Cristo / Winter Dressed

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The View North to La Bajada

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The View East to Cerro Bonanza Two

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Road to Lyden / Gray Day

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Into The Valley

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Lifting Storm Over Placer Mountain

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Winter Shadow / Sierra Negra

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Black Mesa / Clarified

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View to the River / Between Storms

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Perfect Cloud

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Morning View East From Pojoaque

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Winter Arroyo / San Felipe

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Winter View to Pajarito

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On a Bright Day / a Candle

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Arroyo Jacona

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Black Mesa / Winter’s Shadow

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Santa Clara Two

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Santa Clara

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Winter Looking South / Cerrillos Hills

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Winter Looking South / Galisteo Basin

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Behind the Tree / Sun

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Winter / Clear Day

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Autumn / La Cienega

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Late Autumn / Road to Lyden

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View South from the Galisteo Basin

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Monsoon Summer / Green Hill

From the Foothills / Ridgetop Road

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Brilliant Day Two / Long View

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Brilliant Day

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Heading North Into the Rio Grande Valley

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Cumulus Building

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The View South / Showers

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La Bajada

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Storms South

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Monsoon Green / Placer Mountain

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Summer Pasture / Abiquiu Inn

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Tetilla Peak in Shadows

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Monsoon Summer / Ghost Ranch

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Monsoon Summer / Midday

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Monsoon Summer / Desert Green

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Monsoon Summer / View to the Jemez Complex

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Monsoon Summer / View to the Sangre de Cristo

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Santa Fe Valley / Blue Monsoon II

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Morning Overlook / Espanola Valley II

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Perfect Blue

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Jemez Complex / Winter Dressed / View South, West, North

The Jemez Complex is an extinct super volcano. It was created one million years ago in a series of massive explosions. What remains is a mountain of remarkably varied topography. Here, seen from Lower Pacheco Canyon, 20 miles away, the mountain range presents itself in its greatest majesty. These paintings were completed late in the afternoon on consecutive days.

While each panel stands well on its own, I am fascinated by how they speak to each other, lending a transcendent layer of complexity to the whole; this while its palette captures perfectly this blue-steel, mid-winter light.

Jemez Complex / Winter Dressed / View South

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Jemez Complex / Winter Dressed / View West

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Jemez Complex / Winter Dressed / View North

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Bright Winter / Sangre de Cristo Range

This winter sun, under clear skies, reflected off snow covered mountains can be blinding.

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Metallic Sunset / Pena Blanca

This view, looks out over agricultural fields which end in a tree line where the Rio Grande River runs through. The foothills of the southern end of the Jemez Range rise in the distance. Done the day before a snow storm, bands of high clouds were moving in from the west.

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Long View / St Peters Dome

“Long View / St Peters Dome” is another painting from the Cochiti Village paint site. Cliffs of blasted earth have been smoothed by a million years into these powerful undulating forms. They were too distant to truly be capture in this painting. Still, I managed to find some of their magnitude.

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Dome Wilderness / South Gate

I try not to be sentimental. As an artist, it is a mistake to place too much emotional or psychic meaning into these places I visit. It simply does not help with the work. While painting this view from Cochiti Village a thought kept needling my brain. ‘This is not just a distant view of the plateaus from which the Rio Grande River emerges from the Jemez Range, but rather there is some portal here’. I was delighted then to later discover its name: Dome Wilderness / South Gate.

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One Shadow / Placer Mountain

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Black Mesa / Winter Dressed

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Blue Canyon

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