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Many annual art events showcase Southwestern art. The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts hosts Indian Market every August in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which began in 1922. [44] Also begun is 1922 is the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial which features a juried art show and art market, as well many other events, in Gallup, New Mexico. [45]
Atwater grew up in Denver, Colorado, and settled in Los Angeles where he worked as an interior decorator. [1] As a hobby he began painting desert landscapes, eventually moving with his wife to a small cabin built for him by advertising executive Ray Morgan on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) ranch in Dos Palmas, [California].
Artists who were born in, or who have extensively lived in, extensively worked in, or been involved with the Southwest United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
Swinnerton’s early paintings were highly realist, detailed depictions of an endless landscape. His subjects often focused on the exotic contradictions of the desert, a place where the parched land coexisted with thriving beauty. Many of Swinnerton’s later paintings took on more minimalist qualities with a monochromatic palette of earthen tones.
A generation of Tucson artists passed through the doors of the school. Peirce continued to prolifically produce both his extraordinary etchings and watercolors. Peirce authored the book “Painting in the Southwest Landscape in Watercolor” and was awarded an honorary doctor of philosophy in arts from St. Andrews University College of London.
Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was an American artist. He was known for his paintings, and his body of work focused on the American West.Dixon is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of their art to the U.S. Southwestern cultures and landscapes at the end of the 19th-century and the first half of the 20th-century.