MURALS
Every mural I have ever done has a big story behind it, which is vastly different from the situation an artist ponders in creating a work of art in the studio. Here are just a few of the murals I have created in the last 50 years... (perhaps 200 or so but I lost count a long time ago). Over the next few weeks I will go back to a selection of a few murals and tell how they came about ...many of them now, are gone forever...
Christ Walks Water#1 of four panels for Southern Baptist Church, Telluride, CO, 1973
Christ Baptized #2 Souther Baptist Church, Telluride, CO 1973
Christ Tempted, #3 Southern Baptist Church, Telluride, CO, 1973
Christ Sermon on the Mount, #4, Southern Baptist Church, Telluride, CO 1973
The first Mural I painted in NM, El Madrid Lounge, 10'x 14' ABQ, 1984 Elis and Mom.
Louie Madrid, Owner of El Madrid, Motor cop in 1957, escorted Elvis out of NM, 1984
First mural in NM made the front page of ABQ Journal, 1984.
St. Francis Catholic Church, ABQ 1987
Opening of St. Francis mural in ABQ, 1988
Alvord Elementary School, Santa Fe, 1994
Alvord Elementary School, Santa Fe, 1994
Dolores Gonzalez ABQ, 1990
Emerson Elementary School, ABQ, 1988
Freedom High School, ABQ, 1987
Barrales Community Center, ABQ, 1988
Photo on front page of ABQ Journal 1986, me painting the El Madrid Lounge and article.
Santa Fe High School, 1994, in process
Plywood mosaic mural for Bloomfield Elementary School, Farmington, NM, 1990.
The process in Plywood mosaic mural for Mountainair Catholic Church, NM 1989
Plywood mosaic mural, Mountainair Catholic Church, Mountainair, NM, 1989
Baby Jesus arrival in Bethlehem, plywood mosaic, Mountainair, NM 1989
Mountainair Catholic Church, NM 1989
Saint Francis Hospital, detail of 8 X 60 mural, Santa Fe, NM, 1989
Zia Elementary School, ABQ, NM 1989
Zia School, detail of plywood mosaic pillar, painted by blind children, ABQ, 1989
One of 8 4 X 4 plywood mosaic panels, for Very Special Arts, ABQ, 1991
Mesa Elementary School, Farmington, NM, 1988. Process in plywood mosaic and border.
Mesa Elementary plywood mosaic mural, Farmington, NM, 1988
Plywood mosaic murals, 14 sections, Dona Ana Health Center, Los Cruces, NM, 2000
Mesquite district public park, ceramic mural, 6 X 80 feet, history of Los Cruces, NM, 2004.
Music festival mural, 8'x16' Madrid, NM 2017
Mineshaft Tavern mural, history of Madrid, tribute to Ross Ward, 8'x8', 2013
American Graffiti 1, originally painted in Corsica, 1984, recreated in studio 2023.
American Graffiti 2, in process, at studio in Cerrillos, NM, 6'X10' 2023
Vanguard Printing Company, ABQ, 1985
detail Vanguard Printing Company ABQ, 1985
Vanguard Printing Company, ABQ, NM, 1985
Vanguard Printing Company, ABQ, NM, 1985
Vanguard Printing Company, ABQ 1985
Vanguard Printing Company ABQ kept going back for over 15 years. 2001
Vanguard Printing Company ABQ, NM 2001
Vanguard Printing Company ABQ,NM 2001
