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T.V.
T.V.
T.V.

T.V.

Artist (American, 1928 - 2006)
Date1993
Mediumpastel on paper
DimensionsImage: 60 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (152.7 x 101.9 cm)
Frame: 60 13/16 x 40 3/4 x 2 3/8 in. (154.5 x 103.5 x 6 cm)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineGift of the Teal McKibben Estate, 2011
Object number2011.10
DescriptionRealistic rendering of an interior scene with wooden statues and squash blossom necklaces (jewelry) around some of their necks; a television (t.v.) set is on the right side of the image displaying a ghostly image.
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McKibben was a Santa Fe character who had a gallery and also lived in the building, behind the displays of Southwest ethnographica by Native, Hispanic and Meso-American artists. While she worked continuously, she did NOT show her work publically, and few even knew that she was also an artist herself. This excellent work depicts the objects that she collected and sold; it is a marker of a past time in Santa Fe.

 

Documents the evolving development of New Mexico art and the personalities who made this happen. Most importantly, McKibben synthesized mainstream and ethnic art in the region and did not create a hierarchy. If anything, McKibben empowered ethnic arts and diminished the importance of European American art and culture in the Southwest.

 

This is an import work for the museum that synthesizes European American art, Hispanic art, and Native American art. It is a modern version of Marsden Hartley’s painting El Santo, and like this work, acknowledges that ethnic art from the region are also art in a mainstream context.

Teal McKibben’s large pastel drawing depicting the indigenous arts in the artist’s collection at home, with a television displaying a ghostly image. In this work, the art on the wall becomes real and the image on the TV becomes imaginary and illusive.

 

This is an import work for the museum that synthesizes European American art, Hispanic art, and Native American art. It is a modern version of Marsden Hartley’s painting El Santo, and like this work, acknowledges that ethnic art from the region are also art in a mainstream context                 

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