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Art historians commonly remark on the dismissive attitude the painter Stuart Davis developed about the Southwest. And why not? As quoted on the opposite page Davis's own assessment of what he accomplished artistically in New Mexico was fairly negative.
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The dominance of the southwestern environment, what Davis called its quality of "always being there," was what lured him to New Mexico in the first place, and then prompted him to return back East: the towering, angular mesas stratified into patterns of vivid color; the ever-presence of American Indian antiquity and vibrant, living Pueblo cultures; the ...