His lithographs and paintings
of wild animals, trappers, cowboys, and Indians seem secure.
I cannot name and evaluate modern artists of the Southwest.
They are many, and the excellence of numbers of them is
nationally recognized. Many articles have been written about
the artists who during this century have lived around Taos and
painted that region of the Southwest. Some of the better-known
names are Ernest L. Blumenschein, Oscar Berninghaus, Ward
Lockwood, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ila McAfee,
Barbara Latham Cook, Howard Cook. Artists thrive in Arizona,
Oklahoma, and Texas as well as in New Mexico. Tom Lea, of El
Paso, may be quitting painting and drawing to spend the
remainder of his life in writing. Perhaps he himself does not
know. Jerry Bywaters, who is at work on the history of art in
the Southwest, has about quit producing to direct the Dallas
Museum of Fine Arts. Alexandre Hogue gives his strength to
teaching art in Tulsa University. Exhibitions, not
commentators, are the revealers of art.
A few books, all expensive, reproduce the art of certain
depicters of the West and Southwest. _Etchings of the West_,
by Edward Borein, and _The West of Alfred Jacob Miller_ have
been noted in other chapters (consult Index).
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