Object Notes

1947.36 Bess Bigham Hubbard, Crusita of Taos


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
Bess Bigham Hubbard found inspiration for her works in the Native American populations of the Southwest, of which this model is a notable example. Hubbard adopted the carving method of her instructor, the famed modernist sculptor William Zorach. Zorach advocated a direct, reductive chiseling method of working, rather than casting a sculpture in metal from a mold.

1940.20 Frances Skinner, East of Socorro


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
By 1940, Socorro, located near El Paso, had become a major center for cotton production due to the creation of a dam in 1916 that changed the agricultural landscape. Here Frances Skinner avoids the current landscape of the city, concentrating instead on the natural and uncultivated topography of West Texas.