This painting is SOLD. Its strikingly bright golden foliage of the cottonwoods made it an intriguing piece.

Sold 10-2020

The painting has two Taos Pueblo men on horseback at the far northern area of the expansive pueblo land. The painting shows the northern New Mexico landscape with the Sangre de Cristo Range running north and south through northern New Mexico with the distinct massive “el Salto” peak in the background that gives the Pueblo a distinct background as part of it.

Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price is $500.00 for painting. For a wood metal leaf frame for an added $75.00

Painting of two Pueblo Indians on their horses guiding their sheep thru a large aspen grove in full brilliant fall golden color. The composition is hypothetical but possible from days in the past. Painted on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price $500.00 for the painting. Metallic filmed wood frame an added $75.00

The old church at Madrid gives off its own warm reflective light as it sits in a thick blanket of newly fallen snow. Madrid has turned itself into a funky tie die style locale but there is reminders of its glory days as a center for the mining industry and the turquoise that was found along the aptly named turquoise road NM 14 south of Cerrillos. Sitting off by itself this old Church gives a glorious hint of its past built in a style that is found in Jesuit Churches in Europe.

Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Sale price is $500.00. Frame is a gold metallic finish on 17 1/4 inch by 21 1/2 inch wood frame. Frame an additional $75.00

With the adobe church in the background the scene has the adobe church on the left and its gloriously old willow creating a stunning frame for the scene. Below it sits an old 1938 Chevy pickup that is slowly losing its color to the weather. The old pickup is typical of rural New Mexico where what is discarded as old and worn-out is parked someplace and left. It goes with the attitude that was told me by a New Mexico native that what is there is basically apart of the land. Painting is 11 inch by 14 inch.

Sale price $500.00

Frame and additional $75.00

Sitting outside the village of Abique above the village and its Church and near the home of Georgia O'Keefe is the Morada of the Penitentes. The three crosses symbolize their deep Catholic devotion. Constructed similarly to the Pueblo style with wood beams that hold the wicker work of the ceiling and the dirt packed above. Painting is 9 by 12 inches

Sale price is $350.00 Gold metallic finish frame additional $75.00. Frame size is 14 1/4 by 17 1/2 inches.

The adobe family chapel at Apache Canyon is named Nuestra Senora de la Luz and its closeness to Santa Fe off I-25 and its attractive design and structure make it a common subject. Distinctive red treatment and its red roof against the white adobe walls that have a fine film of orange reddish dust make it glow amongst the green hills and trees before it. A group of 5 families own and maintain this family adobe church.

Painted on 9 inch by 12 inch panel.

Sale price is $350.00.

Frame additional at $75.00 for frame in a gold metallic finish

Sitting alone at the mail stop called Guadalipita is this adobe family chapel on the family ranchland. North of Mora it sits looking out east with miles upon miles of grassland and tree lined hills all around. Out in the isolation of the high plains of New Mexico is this small but strong reminder of the people who live the land. Image size is 8 inch by 10 inch.

Sale price is $300.00

Frame additional for $45.00

The curved apse end and the distinctive galvanized roof construction give this adobe church a totally unique appearance as it sits amongst the homes in the small village of Placita. Beyond the River Pueblo flows toward the Picuris Indian Pueblo to the right and west. Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Sale price is $500.00. Frame is with gold metallic finish on 17 1/2 by 21 1/2 inch wood frame. Frame is an additional $75.00

Church of San Lorenzo in the Laguna Pueblo village sits up on a hill, easily seen for miles as you approach it on I-40. White painted adobe church with a tree shaded courtyard in front. It sits just at the village’s western edge. A visitor had come by and the horse is waiting.

Painted in oil on 8 inch by 10 inch panel.

Sale price is $150.00

Frame an additional $45.00

The Mission of San Juan Bautista sits on the east edge of the San Andreas Fault. The valley floor on the moving land sits over 20 feet below the Church and is used as farmland. Along the fault line just to the edge of the Church grounds runs the original Camino Real 20 feet below. The stunning Mission Church and its rural yet distinctive location sets it apart and gives a sense of the original feel of the Mission at its founding in a rural agricultural setting.

Painted in oil on 9 inch by 12 inch panel.

Price is $300.00 unframed. To add a 14 1/4 inch by 17 1/4 inch wood frame with a gold like metallic finish is an additional $75.00

.The Church at Las Truchas sits close to the precarious edge of a steep hill that cascades down to a valley far below. The adobe church is the village's fully functioning church of Las Truchas which sits on the high road from Espanola. The area before the church has been cleared of its many old derelict cars, trucks and the big old fashioned red fire engine. All has been cleared away as the land is now needed for the church. That old fire engine was a distinctive part of the views of the church in many a painting. Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Sale price is $450.00 Frame is a gold metallic finish on 16 1/4 inch by 22 1/2 inch wood frame at additional $75.00

This family chapel sits behind the family home which is only a block off the banks of the Rio Grande. Adobe construction with heavy buttressing here and there to keep the chapel upright and also giving it a distinctive look. All white with a fading red metal roof it still is kept up by the family. Painted in oil on panel.

Sale price is $500.00. Frame is 16 1/4 inch by 11 1/4 inch gold metallic finished woof frame. Frame an additional $75.00

Located just outside of Penasco, NM where the high road that runs behind this family chapel starts its climb through the forest to emerge at Rancho de Taos. It is fall and the truck is loaded with harvested items to decorate the chapel which the open door portrays. The apse end of this little adobe chapel is round and totally distinctive from the High Road behind. Painted in oil on 11 inch by 14 inch panel.

Sale price is $450.00. Frame with a gold metallic finish on 15 1/4 inch by 18 1/4 inch wood frame . Frame an additional $75.00

The round ended apse end of this adobe church adds a distinctive feel that is not found in other adobe churches. The whole scene of deep white snow in the early morning light has an overpowering blue cast to it. The warmth of the slightly off white church captures that little glimmer of warmth. San Antonio is located on NM 14 which is the road to Cerrillos from Santa Fe and continues south to meet I-40 east of the Sandias. The Sandias stand between San Antonio and Albuquerque. The snow shown in the painting is a very rare occurrence today and this unusual storm covered northern New Mexico and the Santa Fe area with over a foot of snow over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Older residents said such snows were more common in their youth. Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.
Sale price is $425.00

Frame in a gold metallic finish on 18 1/2 inch by 22 1/2 inch wood. Frame is an additional $75.00

The three quarter view of the Santuario de Chimayo, NM east of Espanola on NM 76 sitting in a shallow valley is the shrine at Chimayo. History says that a local sheepherder was tending the flock and he found a cross with the body of Christ carved in the folk Hispanic tradition and custom. He took the cross to the nearest priest in Santa Cruz to the west and left it. After his trip to Santa Cruz his flock gathered around a particular location near the stream. There he found the cross in the original location he had found it before. Thus he came to understand this is where Christ wished him to build a chapel. The current Santuario is that shrine where many people have found healing from the earth found at the Santuario's location even to this day. The Santuario is considered a holy place by many because of the many healings that have happened there. Painted on 12 inch by 16 inch panel in oil.

Price unframed is $400.00. To add gold metallic finish frame sized at 18 1/4 inch by 21 1/2 inch. Frame an additional $75.00

The distinctive monastery Panagia Episkopi on Santorini sits on the gentle slopes of the old volcano and west and south of the main city of Thira. Sitting isolated amongst the fields of pistachio trees and grapes has been attacked and its icons stolen for what little gold leaf that could be gained. Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price is $425.00

Frames additional at $75.00

The village of Oia sits on the steep slopes of the caldera side of the remains of the volcano island. Distinctive blue domed churches give the island of Santorini (the Venetian name for Saint Irene for the island of the Greek Thira) its unique ambiance. It sits at the far eastern narrow part of the crescent that is the shape of the island. The gentle sloping land away from the calderas edge is used for growing grapes and pistachios in its desert like conditions. Water is stored from the winter months in cisterns and the moist Aegean air leaves moist dew on the ground that waters the plants.Painted in oil on 8 inch by 10 inch panel.

Price is $275.00 unframed. To add frame add an additional $45.00

Its location near Skipton and Ikley in the West Yorkshire Dales sits 22 miles west of Harrogate which sits another 25 miles west of York. The original Priory which has been dismantled during the reign of Henry the VIII for its lead, stone, glass and timber still has a small intact structure which today is a local Anglican chapel on the Devonshire family land holdings. It sits amongst many nearby ruins such of Perceval Hall and the original Cistercian Fountain Abbey. Distinctive about Fountain Abbey is the last waterpark so popular in the 1700s with its classic and staged views. Fountain Abbey was large enough and industrious enough to start to create its own industrial level foundry. If Henry VIII hadn't had it dismantled and the Cistercian Monks removed the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution would have occurred 250 years earlier so far advanced were the monks in their technological methods.

Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel. Price is $500.00.

Gold gilded metallic finish wood frame is an additional $75.00

Though the barn and out buildings were from a farm and ranch operation to the west of Larkspur, Colorado the setting for the terrain is from a spot further east which was more similar to the high plains as shown. The original ranch barn had a wall of Colorado blue spruce behind it.

The painting is on panel in gouache. It is framed in a rugged barn wood style under glass.

Price is $1200.00

Painted from the Rampart Range Road above Woodland Park, CO on a cold snowy March day. It is a view of Pikes Peak from the NW and shows the massive amount of adjacent uplifted mass. As is typical of such a large mass sitting so high above the surrounding terrain it can create its own weather which is a blessing for Colorado's dryer areas. Painted in oil on panel. It is framed in a matched 19 inch by 23 inch wood frame.

Price with frame is $400.

This barn is sitting along a rural county road ready to sag and fall. Wood shingles and all wood frame is no match for the forces of the moist Missouri weather. It is not long for this land. It sits amongst the trees with a grazing meadow before it. The masonry silo will withstand the weather and time. The scene is painted in oil on panel. Price of painting is $300.00

Frame an additional $75.00

This painting is along the east side of the Front Range which can be reached on the road that runs from 67 west of Sedalia and running west of Castle Rock to the Palmer Divide road. It is painted in gouache and is in a rustic barn wood 19 1/2 inch by 26 1/2 inch frame.

The view is from Colorado 7 on the ascent up the south side of Hoosier Pass. The valley below is the headwaters of the Middle Fork of the South Platte River. It is a mid afternoon winter setting. Mt. Lincoln is on the right with the round dome of Mt. Bross just peaking in on the left.

Painted in oil on canvas. Canvas size 24 inch by 48 inch. Unframed.

Price is $1500.00

Painted on panel in gouache. This still life painting has my own home grown vegetables as the subject. Frame size is 15.25x20 inches.

Price is $600.00 as shown with frame. Under glass

This view is from the east in the flat moraine area just south of Chalk Creek that is flowing easterly to the Arkansas River. The chalk cliffs are at the mountain's south base on the left of the image. View is early morning just after sunrise with a hint of the mornings pink cast. Time of year is early spring with the snow still accumulated on the shadow side of Mt. Princeton.

Painted in oil on canvas. Framed size 30 inches by 50 inches.

Price $1750.00 with frame

The view is looking from the east of the Garden of the Gods from the road east of the Garden of the Gods. The time is fall with a slight covering of snow on the mountain and the grass in the Garden of the Gods is green which is the perfect complement to the reddish color of the stone jutting out of the ground.

Painted in oil on canvas. Framed size 32 inches by 52 inches.

Priced with frame: $1750.00

The painting is of a series of crocks and ceramic pieces which are rendered in oil on canvas. The circles of all the pieces are shown in an oval view as they would appear following the mathematical laws of perspective. I painted this still life because of the challenge of the perspective and the reflections on the glazed glass like surfaces.

Painted in oil on canvas. Frame size is 16 inch by 20 inches.

Price framed is $500.00

A view of selected lighter colored gourds, summer squash, tomato with the view of the earthy glazed crock and two crystal glasses with a warm overall glow. The composition is full of circles and curves from the tomato and vegetables. Painted in oil on canvas. Framed size is 16 1/4 inch by 20 3/4 inches.

Price framed is $450.00

This very compact little adobe family chapel sits to the north of Pecos, NM up the river valley and off to the west of the Pecos flowing below. It is winter and the warmth of the adobe walls gives it a balance against the cool greens and snow of the winter season. Painted in oil on panel. I have painted this chapel also in the fall with the golden aspen coloring in the distance. It has the cold blue sky, the partially covered pines and the white snow covering which all this coolness is balanced with the warm adobe walls of the chapel. It is typical of the many family chapels that dot the New Mexico land. I saw the same approach in Greece with its abundance of little family chapels that followed the styles of the larger buildings, white walls with blue doors and trim. Painted in oil on panel. Panel size is 12 inch by 16 inch.

Price unframed is $400.00 Frame is an additional $75.00

The view is the altar end or apse end of San Jose de Gracias de las Trampas, an old charming adobe church which dates back to the beginnings of the 1700s. The chapel construction follows the customary chapel design that is found on the Indian Pueblos such as San Ildefonso and Santa Clara near Espinola and other pueblos. The King of Spain granted the descendants the right to settle in the valley in 1706 which sits in its own green valley running east and west south of the populated area around Penasco and the Picuris Indian Pueblo.

The painting depicts two Pueblo Indians riding back to their Picuirs Pueblo home to the north with their newly acquired horses.

The area is lightly populated and is mostly ranch and small farming. Las Trampas church sits on the high road NM 76 from Espanola through Las Truchas going north to the High Road to Taos.

Painted on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price is $500.00 unframed

Add the 18 1/2 inch by 22 1/2 inch gold like metallic finish wood frame for additional $75.00

A view in the early summer of the Maroon Bells with a little of the snow that helps define the rock strata that gives the two mountains their totally unusually distinctive look. The spot for the view is where the stream is flowing from the lake that sits at the base of the Maroon Bells and heading to the Roaring Fork just north of Aspen, CO. A very truly Colorado scene.

Painted in oil on canvas. Framed size 30.5 inches by 50.5 inches

Price framed $1750.00

This view captures the glowing Mt. Yale in the bright white of the winter snow covering. Looking back to the east from Cottonwood Pass road gives a sharply vanishing view of the Mountain and the terrain that sits at its western side. 

Painted in oil on canvas

Price is $1500.00

Framed with a rustic pine furring strip. Size is 32.5 inches by 52.5 inches

The inspiration for this painting was when I was visiting the Santa Fe area and stopped by this local adobe chapel at Canoncito which is adjacent to I-25 which passes in front of this attractive chapel. One of the five families that help maintain the chapel had parked their F-150 pickup in front of the chapel. The tailgate was down and they were bringing into the chapel flaralettos and other decorative Christmas items along with a tree. I thought the situation would make a nice painting so I pushed the time back 100 years into the past. So it is 1900 to 1910 and since cardboard boxes were not available I had the decorative items in old wood vegetable and fruit crates. I found the labeled crates on the internet by their time period. Flaralettos are brown paper bags with sand in the bottom to hold the candle. Go to Santa Fe over Christmas and they decorate many of the building there.

Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

This painting caught the attention of the purchaser by the most interesting story the painting told. It joins other artwork in her most interesting home.

SOLD spring of 2020

The time is in the later fall with the cottonwoods having already lost their leaves and sitting in front of the willows which still hold their bright orange leaves. The canal that the trees border keeps these trees healthy and fruitful. Horses graze upon the yellowed grass. Ojo Sarco is north of Las Truchas and climbing up the hill that descends into las Trampas which dates from 1706 when the Spanish king granted the Spanish descendants to settle in the valley and build their adobe church. The view is along the high road from Espanola to Rancho de Taos which is the more scenic and interesting route in New Mexico heading between Santa Fe and Taos. Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price is $500.00

Frame is an additional $75.00

The view is late winter, the willow branches have turned their brilliant orange getting ready for spring. A view in the San Luis Valley of Colorado west of San Luis with the Blanca Peaks formation behind, Little Bear, Mt. Blanca and Mt. Lindsay. On the other side of the Peaks is the Great Sand Dunes National Park.

12x16 inch oil on panel.

Sale price is $350.00 unframed.

Frame is an additional $75.00

An 8x10 inch oil on panel of various squashes with their subtle warm tones of orange and tints of parchment color. Each squash shows its distinctive textures and surface patterns. One balancing tomatillo to the lower left adds a soft touch of balance in flavor and appearance to the whole.

Sale price is $125 unframed

Frame is an additional $45.00

Up in the high country of Colorado runs the Crystal River flowing from McClure Pass east past Marble and Red Cliff to flow below the massive Mt. Sopris. The Crystal River flows into the Roaring Fork just south of Carbondale north of Aspen and the Roaring Fork flows into the Colorado River at Glenwood Springs. The scene is February with ice covering parts of the river, the hills and peaks and mountains in their white coat of winter which allows the iron rich red hills to show themselves with their texture and warmness against the cool of the white. 12"x16" image size.

Painted in oil on panel.

Price is $500. 00 Frame is additional. Add $75.00

Size is 9 inch by 12 inch oil on panel of three very interesting decorative squashes that help make Fall most interesting. Accompanying the squashes is a ripe apple fit for the season. To accent the warm colors of the apple and the squashes is the cooler colors of the vase and ceramic cup all in front of a patterned deep red cloth. finished in the fall of 2017.

Sale price without frame is $175.00.

Frames additional for $45.00

The San Acacio adobe church sits all alone in Colorado's San Luis Valley. It is located west of nearby San Luis with its very old Hispanic community which settled in the area in the early 1800s. The scene is a late winter snow covering with the willows giving off their bright orangish color just before spring. The settlements were built at that time like a fort with the plaza in the center and the dwellings surrounding it. That was a defense against the Indian raids that came over the nearby pass. Eventually the U.S. set up a military post at Fort Garland which ended the regular Comanche raids. Settlements from the south could not establish themselves due to those raids. The Comanche raids ended the Pueblo at Pecos in the 1700s and all that remains are the melted adobe structures.

Oil painting on 11 inch by 14 inch panel.

Price is $500.00

Frame an additional $75.00

This is a small and personable view of this famous adobe church in Las Trampas which is on the high road from Española and Rancho de Taos in New Mexico. This Church was founded after a legal grant from the King of Spain in 1706. The area was settled by 12 families and in 1761 they built this adobe church in classic Spanish mission style. Such a church model is at the San Ildefonso Pueblo east of Española It sits in a remote and elevated area of New Mexico with pinon and other pine trees. It is a classic structure in design that was used even in the Indian Pueblos southwest of Española. Painted on 8 b 10 inch panel in oil.

The Church also had the name of San Tomas de las Trampas

Sale price is $150 unframed.

Frame is an additional $45.00

This is a portrait of an orange brought home from Mesa, Arizona freshly picked. Painted in oil on 6x8 inch panel

Sale price is $125.00

Frame is an additional $45.00

The buffalo bull in the ordinary term of a bull bison standing regally on fresh green spring grass.

Painted in oil on 9" by 12" panel

Cost $150.00

Frame and added $45.00

Still life of a pumpkin with tomatoes, painted in oil on 8 by 10 inch panel. The painting studies the unique particular oval shapes of each and the texture and color which reveals what type of vegetable it is. The interesting note is the three types of tomatoes and all casting their own oval shadows.

Painted in oil on panel

Sale price $150.00

Frame is additional for $45.00

This is a striking family chapel named after Nuestra Senora de la Luz. it sits along the old the old Santa Fe Trail road with that road in front climbing off to the east toward Glorita Pass.. The family chapel is maintained by 5 nearby families. The chapel was built in 1811 and off to the east side there is a road back to a valley. In 1862 the 2500 man Confederate cavalry from Texas which had taken control of all of the populated areas of New Mexico had quartered their horses and supply wagons in that valley. They dismounted to meet the 500 Union soldiers following the Santa Fe Trail with the 1000 man Colorado Volunteer contingent. They met at Glorita Pass. As the battle was raging a Major Chivington with a group of his Colorado Volunteer contingent climbed up the hills to the south of the Trail and worked their way to the valley behind the Texans. They killed their horses and burned their supplies. Thus ended the Confederate take over of New Mexico. Painted on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price $500.00

Frame an additional $75.00

This chapel sits on a family ranch in Mora County on the east side of the Sangre de Cristo Range. It is totally isolated from any community and sits in this large expanse of pasture land. It looks like it is being abandoned by the ranch owners because it has one window broken out but that should not affect its standing for many years. It is made of stone and cement with a galvanized roof so it should survive the dry climate of New Mexico. Another interesting thing about the chapel is its rounded apse end where the altar is located which is not that common as a means of construction. Painted on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price $500.00

Frame and additional $75.00

The adobe church in Rowe along Interstate 25 is at the junction to the road that goes up the canyon going east where the San Jose River flows deep into the eastern part of New Mexico. The church sits amongst past residents' gravestones. The time is late March with a bit of green grass starting to come up. To early for the hollyhocks which line the street to the church and the flowers that cover the graveyard. Now all the churches have metal roofs whether painted or galvanized to replace the hard to maintain thatch used in the past. Oil on 12" by 16" panel

Price $350.00

Frame additional at $75.00

Horses grazing in the field during a warm Western Slope of Colorado afternoon in February. The horses are grazing under the branches of a very old cottonwood. The color of the wintertime grass and the horses were so similar that the horses melded into their field. In the far distance is a mountain that is part of the San Juans in southwest Colorado.

Oil on 9x12 inch panel

Price is $150.00 Frame is an additional $45.00

Painted at the Denver Art Students League in the spring of 2016 of Elle in studio 106. It was an Atelier session painted in the French Academy process with first a charcoal drawing of the model is drawn and then a cartoon for transfer is made and transferred to a Belgium linen canvas. Canvas size is 22 inch height by 18 inch width. My position was from the side facing the north light so much of her was in shadow with just an edge of her in light. This is one of many paintings from models where a limited palette was chosen.

Painted in oil.

Price with frame is $1200.00

The brilliant red ridge which is just east of Eagle, Colorado has always struck me as a landmark in Colorado. In this winter view with the white covered pasture land in the foreground and accenting red of the ridge revealing its presence even more starkly. The time is February and spring is about two months away in the higher mountains of Colorado but the snow comes and goes as the sun melts it off. Painted on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.

Price $500.00

Frame is an additional $75.00

This iris is from our backyard garden. In my research I have not been able to find the proper name designation for this type of stunning iris, This iris is considered a bearded iris because of the fine yellowish beard like growth on the petals. Oil painted on 8 by 10 inch panel.

Price is $150.00

Frame an additional $45.00

Our neighbor has a large peony plant with the blossoms a white with the bottom petals a very faint purplish tint. The center has a touch of red and yellow. Painted in oil on 8 by 10 panel.

Sale price $150.00

Frame an additional $45.00

These irises are from our backyard garden. Very fine coloring of white with a tint of yellow and yellow bearding which are bright against the green yard and foliage that it grows up above the surroundings. 6 by 8 inch oil painting on panel.

Sale price is $75.00

Frame an additional $45.00

Painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel that describes the brilliant fall color with cottonwood and willow glowing their brilliant gold. The scene is showing a warm fall afternoon with cattle grazing. The willows in the background left are along the Rio Santa Barbara which is flowing toward the west that feeds into the Rio Grande above Espanola, NM. the location of this field is just south of Penasco, NM on the high road from Española to Rancho de Taos just south of Taos.

This painting has been purchased. SOLD

plainaire painting of the Lower Falls. In oil on 8 inch by 10 inch panel.

Painted July 2016.

Never did get to finish because the painting was interrupted by a heavy downpour and storms. The painting was in its beginning stages so the foreground had not been put in. Also while painting the scene there was a large audience which also slowed up the working time. Everyone had their comments and interest which were answered in turn.

Price is $150.00

Frame is additional for $45.00

Oil on 9 inch by 12 inch panel, a composition of Red Roses and White Roses and a touch of little yellow flowers for accent. All in the brass bowl resting on white lace like fabric. 

Price $150.00

Frame an additional $45.00

This is a striking family chapel named after Nuestra Senora de la Luz. It is located along the old Santa Fe Trail road with the road in front climbing to the left toward Glorieta Pass. One of the note of this chapel that is maintained by near by families is it was built in 1811 and in the valley nearby the Confederate cavalry had their supply wagons and horses quartered. During the Civil War 2500 Confederates met 1000 Colorado Volunteers and 500 Union soldiers from Fort Union north of Las Vegas, NM. The battle was an engagement where the Confederate dismounted cavalry attacked the line of Union soldiers and volunteers. The Union side would do a strategic retreat to set up another line that the cavalry troops would attack. It was a way of depleting the attacking forces. But the blow that won the battle for the Union side was Major Chivington of the volunteers with a group of men traveled the ridge to the south and came in and over took the Confederate wagons and burned the wagons and shot the horses. Once the cavalry commander found out this action he surrendered. So ended the Confederate effort to head for California. Their ultimate goal was also the Colorado gold fields. This occurred in 1862. Same chapel can be seen in the painting Bringing in the Christmas Trim.

painted in oil on 12 inch by 16 inch panel.