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Voices of la Lydia
The book is about Lydia Patterson Institute, a Methodist mission school founded in El Paso, Texas in 1913 during the Mexican Revolution. The story is told through a series of portraits and first- person narratives of significant individuals who left their imprints on the school.
Tom Lea
"Born in 1907 in El Paso, Texas, Lea says he can't remember when he didn't like to draw pictures. Recognizing his talent, his parents and teachers encouraged him to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. After high school graduation in 1924, he boarded a train for Chicago, where for ten years he studied and worked with his mentor, the muralist John Norton. Drawn back to the Southwest in 1934, Lea lived in Santa Fe for two years and then returned to El Paso, which has been his home ever since." "During World War II, Lea was a war correspondent for Life magazine, and he witnessed action in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific, Europe and North Africa. As a portraitist, he came in personal conta...
Art Boom: Contemporary Art in El Paso
A collection of critical writings about the El Paso "art scene" of the late 1980s and 1990s, featuring contemporary art in museum, university, and gallery venues, by artist and arts writer Becky Hendrick. Articles appeared in the El Paso Herald-Post, The El Paso Times, Artweek, Artlies, Artspace, and numerous other regional and national arts publications.
Biennial Exhibition
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Whitney Biennial
Since 1932, the Whitney Museum's Biennial Exhibitions have counted among the milestones in the history of American art and have played a leading role in presenting vanguard developments in art to the general public. Countless prominent artists have made their museum debut at these diverse surveys of painting, sculpture, works on paper, film and video, performance, and installation. For the eagerly awaited first Biennial of the new millennium, the Whitney has assembled a versatile team of curators from around the nation to select and invite the participating artists. Once again, the Whitney will help to establish a critical perspective on the latest creative achievements by American artists.
Howl
A beautiful tribute to one of the most distinctive artists and sculptors in the contemporary Southwest.
Texas Women
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Cormac McCarthy's House
Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is interpreted. As a visual artist, Josyph wrestles with the challenge of rendering McCarthy’s former home in El Paso as a symbol of a great writer’s workshop. As an actor and filmmaker, he analyzes the high art of Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited and No Country for Old Men. Invoking the recent suicide of a troubled friend, he grapples with the issue of “our...
Rudy Pozzatti, a Printmaker's Odyssey
A retrospective appreciation of Rudy Pozzatti's career as an internationally distinguished graphic artist.
