Remembering Santa Fe - Hardcover

Clark, Willard F

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586853597 ISBN 13: 9781586853594

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2004

Synopsis

Willard F. Clark was a printmaker and artist who greatly shaped the way the rest of the world views old-time Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born in 1910 in Boston, he grew up in Argentina, and studied art during the summers in New York City at Grand Central Station Art School and the Hawthorn Art Academy. In 1928, on his way to California, he stopped in Santa Fe, New Mexico and fell in love with the majestic landscape of the American Southwest. There he started a small print shop and taught himself the craft of printing, cutting his own woodblocks, setting type, and binding small books. Willard Clark developed a graphic style that came to represent early Twentieth-century Santa Fe to many around the world. This collectible reprint of Recuerdos de Santa Fe, 1928-1943 includes 48 beautiful and original etchings, along with reminiscences from author Willard Clark that capture the old-time feel of Santa Fe, New Mexico. First produced as a limited edition book with 100 signed copies, this edition includes an introduction by the artist's grandson Kevin Ryan. Remembering Santa Fe makes a perfect gift for those who love Southwest art, an ideal memento of a Santa Fe vacation, or a charming souvenir for anyone interested in the art and artists of the West.

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Contents 1. Exchange Hotel/La Fonda (East San Francisco Street at Old Santa Fe Trail) 2. St. Francis Parochial School (122 East San Francisco Street) 3. La Parroquia/St. Francis Cathedral (131 Cathedral Place) 4. Cathedral Convent/Old Federal Post Office (108 Cathedral Place) 5. St. Vincent Sanitarium (Cathedral Place) 6. Santa Fe County Courthouse/Coronado Building (141 East Palace Avenue) 7. Johnson Building/Catron Block (53-55 Old Santa Fe Trail) 8. First National Bank/Eagle Dancer (57 Old Santa Fe Trail) 9. National Guard Armory/Hall of Ethnology (110 Washington Avenue) 10. Women's Board of Trade Library/Fray Angelico Chavez History Library and Photographic Archives (120 Washington Avenue) 11. State Securities Building/Anasazi Hotel (113 Washington Avenue) 12. Nusbaum House (125 Washington Avenue) 13. Otero House/Santa Fe National Bank/First Interstate Building (150 Washington Avenue) 14. Palace Hotel (Washington Avenue near present-day Marcy Avenue) 15. Allison-James School (Paseo de Peralta at Old Taos Highway) 16. Presbyterian Mission School (Grant Avenue) 17. First Presbyterian Church (208 Grant Avenue at Griffin Street) 18. Santa Fe High School Campus (Marcy Avenue at Lincoln Avenue) 19. Centerline Building (207 Lincoln Avenue) 20. Santa Fe Sporting Goods (203 Lincoln Avenue) 21. Little Chief Grill Cafe/La Esquina Building (112 Marcy Avenue at the corner of Lincoln Avenue) 22. Montgomery Ward Order Office (125 Lincoln Avenue) 23. Elks Theater (117-119 Lincoln Avenue) 24. Elks Club (111-113 Lincoln Avenue) 25. Fine Arts Museum (corner of Lincoln Avenue and Palace Avenue) 26. Fort Marcy/Bishop Building (123 West Palace Avenue) 27. Evans Motor Company/Bokum Building (142 West Palace Avenue) 28. Courtyard Houses/Santa Fe County Courthouse (102 Grant Avenue) 29. Palace of the Governors (north side of the Plaza) 30. The Plaza 31. Hotel Capital/El Onate Theater (corner of Lincoln Avenue and Palace Avenue) 32. Claire Hotel/Ore House Restaurant (50 Lincoln Avenue at East San Francisco Street 33. South Side of the Plaza (1869-present) 34. Beacham -Mignardot Hardware Company/J.C. Penney Company (50 East San Francisco Street at the corner of Don Gaspar Avenue) 35. Commercial Hotel/Central Pharmacy/Spirit & Corsini (107-109 West San Francisco Street) 36. The Big Dry Goods Store (111 West San Francisco Street) 37. Laughlin Building (104 West San Francisco Street) 38. Paris Theater/El Paseo Theater/Banana Republic (123 West San Francisco Street) 39. Z. Staab Building/Bell's Department Store (118 West San Francisco Street) 40. Taichert's (120 West San Francisco Street) 41. Herlow's Hotel/Alley Theater (212-216 West San Francisco Street) 42. Evans Hotel (230 West San Francisco Street at Sandoval Street) 43. Montoya's Furniture & Hardware Company/Hilton Hotel (110 Sandoval Street) 44. Points Drive-In (212 Agua Fria Street) 45. Santa Fe County Jail (212 Water Street) 46. El Fidel Hotel (202-206 Galisteo Street) 47. Motley's Opera House (Galisteo Street) 48. Union Bus Depot/Water Street Plaza (126 West Water Street at the corner of Ortiz Street) 49. Ortiz Street (between Water Street and Alameda AQ: Street? Avenue?) 50. Normandie Hotel/Montezuma Hotel/Doodlet's (120 Don Gaspar at West Water Street) 51. New Mexico Power Company (201-204 Don Gaspar at East Water Street) 52. DeVargas Hotel (210 Don Gaspar Avenue) 53. St. John's Methodist Church (216-218 Don Gaspar Avenue) 54. Don Gaspar (looking north to West San Francisco Street) 55. Quickel-Houk Motor Co./Santa Fe Village (227 Don Gaspar Avenue) 56. Transcontinental Garage (northwest corner of Water Street and Shelby Street) 57. Santa Fe Motor Company/Morris Motor Service (northwest corner of Water Street and Shelby Street) 58. Thomas Motor Company/Hoswell Motors/El Centro (southwest corner of Water Street and Shelby Street) 59. Loretto Academy (Old Santa Fe Trail at Water Street) 60. Loretto Convent/Inn at Loretto (211 Old Santa Fe Trail at East Alameda AQ: Street? Avenue?) 61. San Miguel Mission Church (401 Old Santa Fe Trail) 62. Lamy Building (491 Old Santa Fe Trail) 63. Lew Wallace Building (495 Old Santa Fe Trail) 64. Miguel Chavez Memorial Building (Old Santa Fe Trail near Paseo de Peralta) 65. Harry Sauter's Storage Lot (southeast corner of Old Santa Fe Trail and Paseo de Peralta) 66. State Capitol Building/Bataan Memorial Building (Galisteo Street near the corner of East DeVargas Street) 67. Guadalupe Church/Santuario de Guadalupe (corner of Agua Fria Street and Guadalupe Street)

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Exchange Hotel/La Fonda (East San Francisco Street at Old Santa Fe Trail) A hostelry, known by a succession of names, has sat across from the southeast corner of the Plaza at the end of the Santa Fe Trail for as long as anyone can remember. Travelers in 1849 describe dining well and finding "comfortable drink" at the United States (or U.S.) Hotel. By 1871 the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper described completion of recent improvements to the "Exchange Hotel or 'Fonda' of this city," which was now "unquestionably one of the most commodious and comfortable hotels in the West" with the best management this side of the Mississippi (top right). In 1886, when the establishment was called the Hotel Capital (the same year a hotel by the same name occupied the corner diagonally across the Plaza; see #31), it made no secret of its gambling room that appeared prominently on that year's city's insurance map.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1586853597
• ISBN 13: 9781586853594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Clark Willard F