Books about Santa Fe at Garcia Street Books
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Willard Clark: Printer and Printmaker by David Farmer. As with many young artists of the Santa Fe art colony, Willard Clark, the recognised American printmaker, was on his way to somewhere else when he landed in Santa Fe in 1928. He ended up spending a lifetime there creating a unique body of wood engravings. Carving his own wood blocks as illustrations for commercial job printing, Clark’s illustration and original typographic design came to define the look of Santa Fe as a destination for travellers in the 1930s and ’40s seeking south-western experiences and colourful locales. |
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Gustave Baumann’s Southwest by Joseph Traugott. Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) moved to Santa Fe in 1918 from Chicago, and spent the rest of his life there, producing a wealth of woodblock prints depicting the southwestern landscape and its people. As his images grew more complex, he devised innovative printing techniques, creating luminous prints with warm, blended hues. This book reproduces more than fifty of the artist’s woodblock prints and gouaches and features an essay by New Mexico Museum of Art curator Joseph Traugott. |
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THE SANTA FE HOUSE: HISTORIC RESIDENCES, ENCHANTING ADOBES, AND ROMANTIC REVIVALS by Margaret Moore Booker.
The first book to survey the historic architectural styles in Santa Fe from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, The Santa Fe House presents in detail forty architecturally rich and picturesque houses, from the earliest one-story adobe structures to homes of today’s “Santa Fe style” showing deep roots in Pueblo Indian Spanish Mexican, and Anglo traditions. |
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Essence of Santa Fe: From a Way of Life to a Style by Jerilou Hammett, Kingsley Hammett, Peter Scholz. The Essence of Santa Fe traces the developments that took a unique and sustainable way of life and turned it into style. Through a rich blend of historic and contemporary photographs, the book unveils the undeniable magic of this charming city that still can be found if one knows where to look. |
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