Gerald Peters Gallery – Selections from the Santa Fe Art Colony

Contact: 

Evan Feldman 

(505) 954-5700 

 

 

October 2 – October 31, 2015

No opening reception

 

During the first few decades of the Twentieth-century, Santa Fe became a popular summer retreat for artists and writers looking for an inspiring geography, a healthy, intellectual climate, and an inexpensive place to live. Artists from the East Coast and Chicago were further enticed by Santa Fe’s new Museum of Fine Arts which opened in 1917 and sought to lure not only visitors, and tourists, but artists, by offering summer studios at the Palace of the Governors to a select few. Additionally, the museum’s progressive, non-juried exhibition policy offered alcove spaces to younger, more experimental painters. These factors, among others, led to the blossoming of the Santa Fe Art Colony, one of the most robust and richly divergent regional art movements of the early Twentieth-Century.

 

The Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of this loose-knit, but well-loved group of Southwestern artists. The exhibition focuses on works on paper and includes a range of work dating from the nineteen-teens to the late nineteen-fifties, when many members had established themselves as seasonal or permanent residents in Santa Fe.