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)