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Here is the account, in storybook form with illustrations by the author, of two artists and how they settled in northern New Mexico to try their skill at designing and building adobe houses. The author finished the drawings in this book in 1937 when the images were fresh in her mind. Together with the story, they give an insight into what many artists were doing in the twenties and thirties, not only as an aftermath of the depression but as a lifestyle, a way of living creatively and artistically in an atmosphere more conducive than city life. While the Stedmans' art thrived in Houston, Texas during the seven years before the depression, their reputations as artists grew to the point that they felt they could go anywhere and do anything. Myrtle Stedman describes the adventure of moving to northern New Mexico where their skills and their joy in art and architecture rose to unexpected heights in spite of hard times in the economy and in their private life.
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About the Author
Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of Adobe Architecture, Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces, House Not Made with Hands, Of One Mind, Of Things to Come, Ongoing Life, Rural Architecture, The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life, and The Way Things Are or Could Be, all from Sunstone Press.
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''Wilfred and Myrtle Stedman, successful Texas artists, used the Great Depression as their spur to move to Santa Fe where they failed as farmers but reached almost legendary status as successful artists and builders in adobe. This book is a simple account, charmingly told, of those early years, in only a few words and a drawing or two per page.'' --Books of the Southwest
''Artists in Adobe is a delightful little companion book to Stedman's autobiography, A House Not Made With Hands (Sunstone, 1990), which fills in the details sketched out by Artists in Adobe and tells of the years before and after the old Tesuque ranch house. With an ever-questioning mind, Stedman was as much ahead of her time in thinking as she was as a woman in the world of design and construction.'' --Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican
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- PublisherSunstone Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0865341885
- ISBN 13 9780865341883
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
- IllustratorMyrtle Stedman
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