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Agustin Lucho Pozo

Pang-chieh Hsu, Paper Money Series (detail), 2009, oil on canvas, Courtesy of the Artist.

Roswell Artist-in-Residence:
Pang-chieh Hsu
Marshall and Winston Gallery
June 26 - August 1, 2010

Paper Money is a series of large oil paintings that depict a type of yellow paper money burned in traditional Chinese culture as a ritual offering to heaven and a medium to communicate with gods or underworld spirits. Stacked in tall, almost unwieldy piles, the depicted money becomes a meditation on the more...


Ted Kuykendall, Santa Claus, 1985, silver gelatin on paper, Gift of Brinkman Randle in memory of Floyd Childress II, 1987.021.0001.
Ray Wielgus, Colt Opentop Pocket, n.d., steel, antique ivory, gold, Courtesy of the Artist's Estate.
Raymond Wielgus
Hunter Gallery
June 12, 2010 - January 2, 2011

This exhibition focuses on the collection of firearms that Tucson artist and collector Raymond Wielgus has created. As unique art forms, these firearms reflect Wielgus’s appreciation for craftsmanship, sculptural form, and a discerning aesthetic. They are modified according to a unique personal aesthetic: hand engraved, inlayed with gold, and their grips are of antique hand carved ivory. more...


Emil J. Bisttram, Unveiled, n.d., wtercolor on illustration board, Gift of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, 1964.009.0001.
Emil J. Bisttram, Unveiled (detail), n.d., wtercolor on illustration board, Gift of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, 1964.009.0001.
Emil Bisttram and the Taos School of Art
Horgan and Graphics Galleries
May 8 - November 14, 2010

Emil Bisttram (1895-1976) was a painter, teacher, and spokesman for the arts. He was born in Hungary and moved with his family to New York in 1906. As a young adult, Bisttram studied at several institutions in New York including the Art Students League and the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now Parsons The New School for Design). It was more...


Wanda Gag, Spring in the Garden,1927, black and white lithograph on paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard N. Cook, 1966.004.0022.

Wanda Gag, Spring in the Garden,1927, black and white lithograph on paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard N. Cook, 1966.004.0022.

Wanda Gág, Howard Cook, and Barbara Latham: 20 Years of Illustrations
Spring River Gallery
March 6 - September 12, 2010

From the beginning of the 20th century, demand for original art to illustrate books and magazines grew dramatically, especially with the onset of improved printing and production techniques. In the 1920s and 1930s a few artists in the United States—where the demand for magazine illustration grew enormously—became household names through more...


Georgia O’Keeffe, Ram’s Skull with Brown Leaves, 1936, oil on canvas. RMAC Permanent Collection
Georgia O’Keeffe, Ram’s Skull with Brown Leaves (detail), 1936, oil on canvas. RMAC Permanent Collection.
New Mexico: 20th Century Visions
Donald B. Anderson and Entry Galleries

This exhibition features the work of noted artists and artisans who lived and worked in northern New Mexico, especially around the art colonies of Santa Fe and Taos. Some of the most prominent New Mexico modernists are featured including Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis, Victor Higgins, Jozef Bakos, and B.J.O. Nordfeldt. more...


Peter Hurd, Portrait of Carol, 1957-58, egg tempera on panel. RMAC Permanent Collection.
Peter Hurd, Portrait of Carol (detail), 1957-58, egg tempera on panel. RMAC Permanent Collection.
Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth Collection
Founders' Gallery

Peter Hurd (1904-1984) was raised in Roswell where his father worked a small ranch southwest of town. Roaming the countryside as a youth on horseback earned Hurd an intimate understanding of the hills, prairies, and arroyos that configured the surrounding landscape. These experiences helped shape his artistic sensibilities and cemented his personal bond with the landscape and people of New Mexico. more...


Dave Shelley, Cody, WY, Shotgun Chaps, late 1800s, leather, white and black angora wool, nickel, canvas
Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard making adjustments at the upper end of a rocket combustion chamber (detail), Roswell, NM, 1940. RMAC Library and Archives Collection.
Robert H. Goddard Collection of
Liquid-Propellant Rocketry

Goddard Galleries and Workshop Recreation

In 1898, a teenage Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945), captivated by the realism of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, “…imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars.” more...


Dave Shelley, Cody, WY, Shotgun Chaps, late 1800s, leather, white and black angora wool, nickel, canvas
Dave Shelley, Cody, WY, Shotgun Chaps, late 1800s, leather, white and black angora wool, nickel, canvas.
RMAC Permanent Collection.
West of Beyond:
The Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston
Collection of the American West

Aston Galleries

Aston, who was born in Iowa in 1918, developed a keen interest in the West during time spent on his family’s various ranches. When nearly forty, he began casting bronzes, using his collection as prop material for the creation of sculptures portraying poignant moments in the history of the American West. more...