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Grimmer Roche

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Like many dealers of American Indian, or "First American," art, Mac Grimmer, of the appointment-only Grimmer Roche, started out as a collector. After moving to Santa Fe from LA, Grimmer renovated a historic building on Canyon Road and opened the Morning Star Gallery in 1982. Twelve years later, as the finest First American art became rarer and rarer, he sold the gallery and began to deal privately. Earlier this year, Grimmer invited David Roche, then director of Indian art at Sotheby’s in New York, to become his partner. Grimmer Roche’s aesthetic approach is encyclopedic connoisseurship (the average sale is $25,000). They deal in what they describe as "the top 15 percent" of American tribal art, which includes Plains Indians war shirts, Northwest masks and rattles, classic Navajo blankets, and pottery and baskets. The partners plan to open a small by-appointment space downtown this fall, "a beautiful white-wall gallery," as Roche describes it, that will continue to "take First American work out of the trading-post mentality, so people can see it as the art that it is." (via Elements of Living)

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Jackalope

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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You won’t find museum-quality goods at Jackalope, which sprawls over six acres on Cerrillos Road, a commercial artery that extends from downtown Santa Fe to outlying neighborhoods; but it is a trip in both senses of the word. The visitor is greeted by hundreds of huge, high-fired, high-color pots. Beyond is a building full of mostly inexpensive Latin American and Asian textiles, pottery, hardware, clothing, CDs, rugs, linens and tchotchkes. Head out the back door for antique and vintage garden accoutrements, open-air booth after booth of antiques, jewelry and crafts, and a building full of Asian furniture. As you should everywhere in this city, wear a hat to protect yourself from the sun, and take your time. If you shop at the pace at which Santa Fe runs, or rather, ambles, you may be lucky enough to stay there for the rest of your life. (via Elements of Living)

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Windsor Betts Art Brokerage House

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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A couple of blocks west of the central plaza in Santa Fe, approaching the red-brick Greek Revival Windsor Betts Art Brokerage House via a shaded path, you might think you’ve suddenly been whisked out of Santa Fe and set down in a small town in Mississippi. But inside, almost every wall is crammed floor to ceiling, frame to frame with southwestern art. Owner Alex Windsor Betts says her business exists to help collectors resell paintings and sculpture purchased from local dealers. This arrangement is mutually beneficial to both galleries and collectors, she adds, because “when clients admire a work in our space, we send them to the gallery that represents the artist.” A Los Angeles real estate broker and photo-studio art director before moving to Santa Fe in 1986, Betts learned at the knee of the late gallerist Elaine Horowich, the grande dame of the contemporary art scene in Santa Fe. The brokerage house represents the “major museum artists” of the Southwest, including Native Americans Fritz Scholder, Kevin Redstar, Earl Biss, Doug Hyde and T. C. Cannon, and such non-Indian artists as Dick Jemison, Paul Shapiro, Warhol contemporary James Havard and de Kooning protégé Michael Wright. An extensive electronic archive of the work on offer can be viewed on a video monitor placed just inside the door, as if it were a work of art itself. (via Elements of Living)

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Riva Yares Gallery

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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One of the best art spaces, across the street from Windsor Betts, is Riva Yares Gallery, the Santa Fe outpost of its eponymous Israeli-born owner’s flagship gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. When you’ve finished admiring works by Milton Avery, Alex Katz, Helen Frankenthaler or other name-brand twentieth-century artist, take a moment to look down, at one of the most appetizing high-shine epoxied cement floors you’ll ever see. (via Elements of Living)

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Price Dewey Galleries

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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On the second floor of the historic Catron Building in Santa Fe is the spacious and beautifully lit Price Dewey Galleries. When Victoria Price bought the Dewey Gallery in 2003 and rechristened it, she also expanded the original gallery’s emphasis on Native American textiles, pottery, jewelry and artifacts. Now on display as well are contemporary art and design like the totemic painted folk sculptures carved from fenceposts by the Navajo artist Charlie Willeto; tweaked traditional pottery (think purgatory depicted as a hot tub) by Marie Romero Cash; early New Mexican tin retablos; mid-century furniture from Scandinavia; and highly original found-metal pieces like the Carrier 3 bench by Tom Emerson. (via Elements of Living)

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Clay Angel

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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A stroll across the plaza to Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe takes you to the Clay Angel, where shelves and shelves of beautifully displayed high-end, high-color pottery from Mexico, Italy, Spain and France occupy the front of the shop. Take a few steps up to the mezzanine to study the large variety of Provençal and other fine, mostly French, table linens. Custom linens are also available. (via Elements of Living)

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Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Located in Sante Fe, the Andrew Smith Gallery for photographs has impressive archives of western landscapes and portraits by such early masters as Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Karl Moon and August Sander, and the lesser known but mightily deserving Josef Sudek. A striking photograph by contemporary artist Flor Garduño, a Mexican living in Switzerland, depicts a black night in which a crow is barely distinguishable but for one glittering eye. Another contemporary photographer, Jack Spencer, shoots affectingly dusky dogs, horses and views of Monument Valley. (via Elements of Living)

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