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Brooks Willis: Modernist Glimpses from New Mexico, Los Angeles, and Abroad
August 24 - September 22, 2007
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe
1011 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
TEL 505.954.5700 FAX 505.954.5754
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am - 5pm
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For further information contact:
Evan Feldman
Administrative Director of Contemporary Art
(505) 954-5738
efeldman@gpgallery.com
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The Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe is pleased to present a summer exhibition of paintings and works on paper from the estate of Brooks Willis (1903-1981). A New Mexico native and protégé of Santa Fe Art Colony founder and teacher, Randall Davey, Willis explored both the rural Southwestern landscape and urban scenes of America and Europe with impressionist and cubist approaches. A painting teacher at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque beginning in 1940 and at UNM’s extension school in Taos, Willis came under the influence of European modernism in Paris during the late 1930s and early 1940s. He experimented with cubism while in California and spent the final decade of his life in Santa Fe. This exhibition, the first by the Gerald Peters Gallery since acquiring the estate last autumn, is comprised of approximately thirty vibrant landscapes, architectural abstractions, and still life studies.
Willis’ work has been exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collections of the Albuquerque Museum, The Dayton Art Institute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and New Mexico Highlands University where eight of his Works Progress Administration murals from the 1930s were recently restored. The Gerald Peters Gallery is the exclusive representative of the Brooks Willis Estate.
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