Travel the High Road
ON THE HIGH ROAD to Taos, the landscape keeps changing. Back in Santa Fe, the earth felt hot and dry. But as I approach Nambé on NM 76, the scenic byway’s unofficial starting point, sandy ground…
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Tag: Santos
New Mexico Santos: May 1935
THE INTEREST WHICH has developed in the study of early New Mexican religious art as represented by santos is shown by their scarcity within late years. Some twenty years ago when I first became…
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New Mexico Santos: April 1935
LUMMIS HAS REFERRED TO NEW MEXICO as “The Land of Poco Tiempo .” It might well be termed, “The Land of Santos .” Whenever and wherever the Spaniard established a set tlement, invariably he placed it…
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New Mexico Santos: March 1935
TIME NEVER LIES HEAVY on the mind of the man or woman who has a hobby. This is an old and familiar adage, the truth of which I can vouch for from my own experience. As a boy, I collected stamps…
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From Hard Times to Holy Roller
NICHOLAS HERRERA didn’t grow up in the small northern New Mexico community of El Rito intending to be an artist. But to say that art became his calling is an understatement. After a near-fatal car…
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Master Santeros Save the Sacred
MASTER SANTERO FÉLIX LÓPEZ calls the artworks at San Antonio de Padua Church, in Córdova, where his great-grandparents are buried, “a door to the sacred.” St. Anthony’s, as it’s casually known in the…
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Quintessentially NM: Art
A gleaming selection of turquoise bracelets. Courtesy of New Mexico Tourism Department. True Blue WATER HELPS COPPER AND ALUMINUM SEEP THROUGH rocks and alchemize into veins of blue stone found in…
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