7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW

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AUCTIONING HIGH END ARTWORK ON MAY 30TH FROM 5pm to 9pm MST

ARTISTS INCLUDE: N.C.WYETH,  GERALD CASSIDY, DAVID BURLIUK, PATROCINO BARELA, EDITH BRISCOE STEVENS, ELIZABETH CATLETT, PABLITA VELARDE, OLD MASTER DRAWINGS, HUNT DIEDERICH, ANTON MAUVE, WILL HUTCHINS,  MAX LUNA, HOWARD COOK,  HERBERT DUTTON, JOSE DOLORES LOPEZ, NAVAJO RUGS, NELL DORR, EDWARD WESTON, PICASSO, DIEGO RIVERA, JOY LAVILLE, CHARLES DANA GIBSON,  ARTHUR B. DAVIES, MARGARET TAFOYA,   GISELLA LOEFFLER, ANTHONY THIEME, KATHE KOLLEWITZ, EDITH HEAD, KENNETH M CHAPMAN, LEON GASPARD, ALSON CLARK, EUGENE HIGGINS, FREDERIC REMINGTON, HENRI CROSS, CONSTANCE MACKY, WALT KUHN,  JOSEPH SACKS, JULES PASCIN, WARREN ROLLINS, E. I. COUSE

DANIEL HERNANDEZ MORILLO,  EDITH WHITE, GILBERT ATENCIO, MAX KUEHNE, SIGMUND MENKES, JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG, JOHN SINGER SARGENT, JACK WILKINSON SMITH, CARL WOOLSEY, J J ENNEKING,  MICHEL VEDANI, GERALD NAILOR, JOSEPH MEEKER, HARRISON BEGAY, MOSE TOLLIVER, REGINALD MARSH, THOMAS HART BENTON, CHARLES BUCKLES FALLS, OLIVE RUSH, JOHN FERY, ANNA SKEELE,  ARNOLD RONNEBECK, RUDOLPH DIRKS, TONY ABEYTA, GENE KLOSS, HENRY REDMORE,  LOUIS SIEGREIST, SAMUEL FULTON, JULES LEPAGE, BART. ASSTEYN, ARTHUR RACKHAM, ELEANOR COLBURN, PETER HURD, JEAN MANNHEIM, ODA KAZUMA, MAURICE LOGAN, HANNIBAL ALKHAS, JUNIUS SLOAN, MAX LUNA, FRANK PENFOLD, LILLY MARTIN SPENCER

FRANK SHAPLEIGH, JOSEPH SHARP,  WILLIAM SHERWOOD, WALTON LEADER, ROSSO FORINTINO, ILA MCAFEE, CLAUDE HOWELL, ZOLTAN SEPESHY, WILL SHUSTER, LOUISE DE GUIMARD, NELLIE KNOPF,  MAX ARNOLD, ROBERT MARC,  LUKE CLELLEN, NAMPEYO, DULAH KREHBIEL, ALBERT KREHBIEL

7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW

ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............WARREN E ROLLINS.............'HILLSIDE ADOBE',  15" x 10".............

This is a 15" x 10" Original and Vintage color pencil on paper by the important Santa Fe, NM painter Warren E Rollins, 1861-1962. The image is of a hillside adobe in Santa Fe. Signed in pencil at lower right. Fine condition, Unframed.

 

The Biography Follows:

For many years Warren Eliphalet Rollins was known as the "Dean of the Santa Fe art colony."  He was the first artist to have a formal exhibition there; it was held in 1906 in the old Palace of the Governors.  He was a close friend of Carlos Vierra, Gerald Cassidy, Kenneth Chapman, Sheldon Parsons and most of the other famous artists who assembled in the New Mexican capital during the first half of this century.

Born in Carson City, Nevada, Rollins was raised in California and attended the San Francisco School of Design where he studied under Virgil Williams.  At the completion of his studies, he was awarded the Avery Gold Medal and made Assistant Director of the school.  Following his marriage in 1887, he and his wife settled in San Diego, and it was during this period that Rollins became interested in the Indian as subject matter.  In search of material, Rollins, his wife, and their two daughters, Ramona and Ruth, traveled through every Western state from the Mexican to the Canadian borders.  While in Montana, Rollins painted a portrait of Calamity Jane.  The sitting took place in a saloon, and while Rollins drew, Calamity drank, wept and poured out the story of her life to him.  The portrait was lost in a fire at The Billings Club.

In the early 1900s, Rollins spent a year in Arizona painting the Hopi, Navajo and Zuni Indians; these studies became very popular.  His constant search for new subject matter took him to Taos, where he had a studio near his friend Irving Couse; to Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, sketching and painting its ancient ruins; and to the Grand Canyon where he had a studio near El Tovar.  His dramatic Canyon painting was purchased by the Santa Fe Railroad.

Rollins was the first president of the Santa Fe Art Club, and active in the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, which has an extensive collection of his work, including "Grief," one of his most famous paintings.  He did murals for the Museum, the post office and Harvey House in Gallup, and triptychs depicting Zuni life for Bishop's Lodge, Santa Fe.   His "Mayflower Series," done in Crayo-tone, a medium he developed and used almost exclusively in later years, was widely exhibited on the East Coast.   Warren E. Rollins continued painting well into his nineties and died at the age of one hundred years and five months in Winslow, Arizona.

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