Bright Summer Sky. 30 x 48

In a letter to Alan Tucker of Roswell, owner of the painting:
I was
looking at our mid-summer sky before the rainy season when the high
pressure of New Mexico makes our atmosphere milky. I had been
painting dark brooding sunsets, and the brightness of the sky gave me
pleasure. Thinking mainly of the sky, I chose to create a world from
my memories. I had grown up among the tall mesas east of the Jemez
range and west of the Rio Grande around present-day Los Alamos, and
imagined them in a wider, well-watered land, sort of a synthesis of
what I wanted the world to look like. I am sorry I cannot tell you
where you can go to see this country; it is more or less a New
Mexican's concept of the Garden of Eden.

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