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View from the 1st Floor of the Luther Bean Museum |
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The two
back rooms of the museum are dedicated to Bill Moyers'
sculptures. He is a graduate of Adams State College from the
mid-30s and is an outstanding Western artist. Moyers depicted
life on the frontier and farm life of western America, drawing much
of his inspiration from his life growing up in the San Luis
Valley. In the fall of 1999, the museum received a nice collection of Stephen Quiller paintings and prints donated by Charles and Nancy Wallick. Quiller was an art professor at Adams State College for many years, teaching painting and his original style of color theory. Along the stairway are paintings by Woody Crumbo, a Potamattae Indian artist who lived in Colorado and New Mexico for a time. He grew up in Oklahoma and lived among the Kiowa people. Also in the stairway are two Navajo and two Rio Grande weavings along with others donated by Euthenia Davelin Shaw, whose father-in-law got the weavings in trade as a doctor serving the Hispanic community in the Valley. The upper floor of the museum is dedicated to showing the art of the Native American and Hispanic people of the Southwest. Luther Bean has a number of exhibit cases filled with Native American pottery from many tribes including Acoma, Zuni, Santa Clara, San Juan, San Ildefanso, Santa Domingo, Cochiti, and Hopi. The museum has a weaving by Eppie Archuleta, a well-known weaver from the San Luis Valley, as well as other traditional religious folk art of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. |
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