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Come and Stay in our charming Casita 203: |
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Original work by John DePuy
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works from the Artist's Exhibition |
Images are not to scale.
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| "Untitled",
oil on canvas - 1980 52" H x 44" W |
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| "Desert
Plants", oil on canvas - 2010 32" H x 32" W |
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"Sun Path", Mixed media drawing on paper 30" H x 22" W |
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| "Ocatilla",
oil on canvas- 2010 26" H x 30" W |
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"Juniper with Tinajas", Mixed media drawing on paper 22" H x 30" W |
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| "Red
Cliffs", Mixed media drawing on paper 30" H x 22" W |
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| "Canyon
Image",
oil on canvas- 2004 16" H x 26" W |
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"Rock Formations", Mixed media drawing on paper 22" H x 30" W |
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"Grand Canyon", Mixed media drawing on paper 40" H x 26" W |
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"Ocatilla", oil on canvas- 2010 24" H x 30" W |
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| "Cedar
Mesa", Mixed media drawing on paper 22" H x 30" W |
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| "River
Flow", Mixed media drawing on paper 22" H x 30" W |
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John DePuy
When DePuy first moved to
Taos, still under the influence of his teacher, Hans Hoffmann, he
painted nonobjectively. Over time, Hoffmann's influence receded, but
his advice to paint from nature remained. For DePuy, the influence on
art in New Mexico was "mainly the land" and (as with Louis Ribak) the
inspiration Pueblo Indians provided in their connection with the land.
In DePuy's work, the purely surface qualities of the land are often
eclipsed by the land's sheer power. Subtle graduations of color on
walls or in the sky or on limitless plains form a shifting, lively
backdrop for suns which shimmer and rivers which slide away and mesas
which stand dark. DePuy wrote, "this land speaks of another time sense
than our Western-European lineal time." The land DePuy began painting
by the mid-1950's exists within spatial time, where moments do not
proceed to any destination but repeat endlessly in the regular cycle of
day, years, millennia, always returning, circular rather than linear.
Quote taken from David Witt's "Taos Moderns" book.
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