Joseph Riggs, Across the Great Divide, 2019

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Art of The West, Session II

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• Lot Description
  Joseph Riggs
  (20th/21st Century)
  Across the Great Divide, 2019
  watercolor on paper, graphite on paper
  initialed lower right: [artist's cipher] JR
  22 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (57.79 x 76.84 cm.), Frame: 28 1/4 x 35 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (71.76 x 90.81 x 3.18 cm.)
  Private Collection, New Mexico
  "My journey as an artist has taken a multitude of paths as my life has been one adventure after another. After 40 years in the private sector, I began a new life and career as an artist. I had always painted, and much of my earlier artistic career focused on rodeos and rodeo cowboys. I retired in Albuquerque 2014, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2015, I had the good fortune to have an artistic life-changing experience. I spent six weeks in Paris, France experiencing life as a Frenchman. I walked the streets of Picasso, Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh, and so many others of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism period. And I learned one of the important lessons taught by these Masters. “Paint what inspires you, and, if luck smiles upon you, someone else might love it enough to buy it.” I determined to follow that path.
  
  I returned to New Mexico with a new perspective. I wanted to experiment with new materials and new subjects. I wanted to see where my inspirations led. My new paintings began to focus on what I loved most about New Mexico and the Southwest. The sky has always fascinated me, both the daytime sky and the nighttime sky with its millions of stars. I began to paint Native American subjects which had been a mystery to me since my childhood in Texas. And, I began to feel the spirit of Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Juan Gris, Georges Braque and Albert Gleizes – whose spirit had guided me in Paris. I had always loved Cubism, and its roots with Cezanne. And it was fitting that it is now the 100th anniversary of this 20th Century art movement. Could I combine these spiritual influences, and make them my own, and like what I was painting? Could I follow the storied Southwest Modernism movement of Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Raymond Jonson, Andrew Dasburg, John Marin, and Cady Wells? Could I put all of these influences together, and carve a new artistic path? I determined to try.

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