Gustave Baumann's Southwest History Natalie Curtis

Natalie Curtis

Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny

with devastating results

provides a fascinating survey of the area over nearly a century allowing a unique view of the multi-layered

The Spanish administration had been led not by Coronado's earlier vision of god but by a desire to convert the Indians to Christianity and eke a living from the country north of Mexico

Gustave Baumann's Southwest History Natalie CurtisThe Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops worked with Licensing, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the publisher Pomegranate to update and reprint the essential title "Gustave Baumann's Southwest." At the center of the Santa Fe art scene for a half century, Gustave Baumann (1881 1971) drew on the invigorating influences of other European and American artists, along with Native American potters and watercolor painters, to produce a wealth of woodblock