References

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  • ConservArt Associates, Inc. NM-WPA Art Survey West. Culver City, CA. 1997.
  • Flynn, Kathryn A., editor. Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture. Sunstone Press, 1995.
  • Flynn, Kathryn A. Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico, 1933-1943. Sunstone Press, 2012.
  • Hoefer, Jacqueline. A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and Public Art in New Mexico. Sunstone Press, 2003.
  • Pawela, J. Conservation Inventory & Cataloguing Worksheets for McKinley County Courthouse and Octavia Fellin Public Library WPA Art Collection. McKinley County Art Commission, 2006.
  • “4040 Persons Visit Gallup Art Center.” Gallup Independent [Gallup, NM], 30 June 1939. 
  • “Art Center Heads Discuss Exhibits.” Gallup Independent [Gallup, NM], 15 July 1941. 
  • “Art Center Ok’d for Another Year.” Gallup Independent [Gallup, NM], 5 July 1939.  
  • “Art Project Discussion Brings Varied Angles.” Gallup Independent [Gallup, NM], 26 Oct. 1938. 
  • “Buy Pictures for Building” Gallup Independent [Gallup, NM], 14 Mar. 1939.
  • “Mural Decorations for Courthouse are Ready.” Gallup Independent [Gallup, NM], 12 May 1939. 
  • “New Mexico New Deal Artwork Catalog: New Deal Artwork.” National New Deal Preservation
  • Bakoś, Józef and Stanley L. Cuba. Józef Bakós: An Early Modernist. Museum of Fine Arts, 1988.
  • Bickerstaff, Laura. Pioneer Artists of Taos. Old West Publishing Company, 1931 (revised 1983).
  • Bishop, Bill and Gail Bishop. “Gene Kloss, Fifty Years in Taos,” Southwest Art, March 1975.
  • Cassidy, Ina Sizer. “Art and Artists of New Mexico: Sheldon Parsons.” New Mexico Magazine, September 1931.
  • Cassidy, Ina Sizer. “Art and Artists of New Mexico: Josef Bakos.” New Mexico Magazine, February 1932.
  • Coke, Van Deren. Taos and Santa Fe: The Artist’s Environment, 1882-1942. University of New Mexico Press, 1963.
  • Cummins, D. Duane. William Robinson Leigh: Western Artist. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; Tulsa, OK of American History and Art, 2005.
  • Dearinger, David B., “Albert Lorey Groll.” In Paintings & Sculpture at the National Academy of Design, Vol. 1: 1826-1925, 241. Hudson Hills, 2004.
  • Dilworth, Leah. Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past. Smithsonian Institution, 1996.
  • DuBois, June. “William R. Leigh (1866-1955),” Southwest Art, vol. 7, no. 7-12, May 1978.
  • Eldridge, Charles C. Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe. Abbeville Press, 1986.
  • Fleck, Joseph A. Joseph A. Fleck: An Early Taos Painter. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1985.
  • Fleck, Joseph A., Jr. The Life and Art of Joseph Amadeus Fleck: A Fine Sense of Poetry. e-Pluribus Unum Books, 2006. 
  • Lewandowski, Stacia. Light, Landscape and the Creative Quest: Early Artists of Santa Fe. Salska Arts, 2011.
  • Shields, Scott, Edgar A Payne, Patricia Ternton, Lisa N. Peters, and Peter H. Hassrick. Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey. Pomegranate Communications, 2012.
  • Anna E. Keener Papers, 1917-1978 and undated. Southwest Collection, Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
  • “Paul Valentine Lantz.” Southwestern Art, vol. V, no. 4, 1976-1977.
  • “Taos Founders, Cinco Pintores, Santa Fe and Early Western Artist Biographies.” Taos and Santa Fe Painters
  • Bahti, Mark, and Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe. Navajo Sandpaintings. Rio Nuevo, 2009.
  • Bernstein, Bruce, and William Jackson Rushing. Modern by Tradition American Indian Painting in the Studio Style. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995.
  • Hahn, Milanne Shelburne. The Studio of Painting at the Santa Fe Indian School, A Case Study in Modern American Identity. 2011. University of Texas at Austin, PhD dissertation.
  • Hyer, Sally. One House, One Voice, One Heart: Native American Education at the Santa Fe Indian School. Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe: 1990.
  • McGeough, Michelle. Through Their Eyes: Indian Painting in Santa Fe, 1918 – 1945. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 2009. 
  • McLerran, Jennifer. A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy 1933 – 1943. The University of Arizona Press, 2009.
  • Scarberry-García, Susan. Dancing Spirits: José Rey Toledo, Towa Artist. Museum of Indian Arts and Laboratory of Anthropology Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe: 1994.
  • Valette, Rebecca M., and Jean-Paul Valette. Navajo Weaving with Ceremonial Themes: a Historical Overview of a Secular Art Form. Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2017.
  • Wycoff, Lydia L., editor. Visions + Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art. The Philbrook Museum of Art, 1996.
  • Bruce Sewell, editor. Tin Craft in New Mexico. Bulletin of the New Mexico State Department of Vocational Education. Published June 1937. 
  • Coulter, Lane, and Maurice Dixon. New Mexican Tinwork, 1840-1940. University of New Mexico Press, 1990.
  • Nunn, Tey Marianna. Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era. University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
  • Padilla, Carmella. “Eliseo Rodriguez: El Sexto Pinto.” El Palacio, Summer/Fall 2001.
  • Williams, A.D. Spanish Colonial Furniture. Bruce Publishing Company, 1941. (Reprinted: Peregrine Smith, 1982.)
  • William Wroth, editor. Furniture from the Hispanic Southwest. Ancient City Press, 1984. 
  • Cassidy, Ina Sizer. “Art and Artists of New Mexico: Gallup Murals,” New Mexico Magazine, 1936. 
  • Cassidy, Ina Sizer. “Art and Artists of New Mexico: Lloyd Moylan.” New Mexico Magazine, April 1937.
  • Moylan, Lloyd. “Mural Opportunities.” Art For The Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Art Project, edited by Francis V. O’Connor, New York Graphic Society, 1973.
  • Bunting, Bainbridge. Early Architecture in New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, 1976.
  • Grattan, Virginia L. Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth. Northland Press, Flagstaff, AZ: 1980.
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