Masterful Western art
Springville exhibit features works that 'epitomize American West'
Composed of three collections Diane and Sam Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Clark and the Springville Museum of Art the exhibit is a balanced mixture of styles and techniques.
Of the artists in their collection, Diane Stewart said: "I think they epitomize the American West. In fact the paintings of Couse, Sharp, Burninghaus, Ufer and other great masters represent the very soul of the West."
Having grown up in Arizona, Stewart said the Native American figures, desert landscapes and mountains are a part of her youth. "When I look at our Taos paintings, each one evokes such emotion and tells such a great but intimate story. I think they are masterful."
The art depicts a period of time in Taos history before the Pueblo Indians became widely known. "No one knew about these Indians," said Larry Clark. "When the people back east first heard about them it was all kind of a revelation. They were familiar with the Plains Indians and the buffalo, but these artists really introduced the Taos and Santa Fe culture to the country."
According to the exhibition's curators, Donna L. Poulton and Traci Fieldsted, one of the first artists to tour the region was Frederick Remington. He was looking for and found a land that had been overlooked by progress.
Many of the artists who painted in Taos before 1940 had studied in Paris before 1900; some had also studied in other European academies.
"As the West that we now know only from books and paintings has vanished, our nostalgia for it grows," said Poulton and Fieldsted. Both say that the images that the Taos Masters recorded on canvas are reaching record levels of interest throughout the world. "Their images are not derivative and are indisputably authentic," they said.
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