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WILLIAM ACHEFF (B. 1947)
Taos Looking
signed and dated '© Wm. Acheff 1999' (lower right)—signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1999.
Provenance
Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3 June 2000, lot 150.
Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 9 July 2005, lot 119.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Exhibited
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gilcrease Museum, Gilcrease Rendezvous, May 1-June 27, 1999, p. 5, illustrated.
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Taos Looking thoughtfully assembles objects associated with the visual culture of the Southwest, including a black Taos Pueblo cooking pot, a carved Avanyu figure, a woven Rio Grande blanket from northern New Mexico, and a reproduction of Eanger Irving Couse’s Mountain Birds in the background.

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