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- "Valdez Valley"
- 24" x 36"
- Oil on Panel
- Circa 1994
- No. 106
- In a Privite Collection
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- In this Southwestern Landscape Painting, "Valdez Valley,"
an original oil on panel, I was inspired to capture the serene
and peaceful ambient in the Valdez valley. This beautiful place
is located 7 miles form Taos NM and is on the way to the Ski
Valley. I stayed in Valdez Valley for several weeks in 1994 and
at that time I devoted my energies to sketching and painting
this composition. This particular location is at the base of
the Sangre De Christo mountains as its forces of nature flow
in a path of life that follows a winding topography through the
high desert landscape on the way to joining with the Rio Grande
river. I loved the simple, clean way the eye looked through all
the trees that encroach the center of the cultivated field as
the eyes vantage point leads to the horizon line some 50 miles
away. This beautiful and green microcosm seemed so vivid with
life and fertility in the land that I had to speak to it in a
painting. The weeks I stayed in this valley were amongst the
best I enjoyed in the northern New Mexico region surrounding
Taos.
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