Chööchökam: Stars That Cling Together, The Pleidas, Plate 45
Artist
William Lumpkins
(American, 1909 - 2000)
Date1965-1967
Mediumgraphite on paper
DimensionsImage: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)
Support: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Support: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineGift of Norma Lumpkins, 2003
Object number2003.48.83
DescriptionAn architectural rendering of a single family home with a gallery. At the upper left corner is the design for the interior of the house which is a circular layout and includes two bedrooms and one and half baths. At the upper right is the interior view of the gallery. Two elevations of the home a featured in the lower half. The left view includes landscaping and a mountain backdrop.eMuseum Notes
A Renaissance man by nature, William Lumpkins was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, a practicing Zen Buddhist, an architect, and an environmentalist. An architectural pioneer, Lumpkins designed and built some of the fist passive solar houses in New Mexico. Passive solar architecture uses the sun’s energy to regulate the interior temperature of space through the intrinsic qualities of the building material and design of the house. Lumpkins’ building designs were inspired by New Mexico’s traditional Puebloan architecture, which incorporated adobe building material and stepped structural facades that echoed the color and form of the environment around them.
On View
Not on view
Alberto Morales Jiménez
1947
John Pfahl
1975 printed 1977