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Contemporary Paintings by Steve Elmore

A native of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Steve Elmore was educated at the University of New Mexico and the University of California at Los Angeles. His aesthetic sensibility was influenced by the rugged Guadalupe Mountains of southern New Mexico, his working as a ranger at Carlsbad Caverns, two years in Italy and twenty in the urban world of New York City. He has taught, and worked as a travel and corporate photographer. His photos have appeared in hundreds of publications. In 1999 Steve left New York to return to his native state.

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As Reviewed in Maine Antique Digest

March 2015

For 25 years, Steve Elmore of Santa Fe, New Mexico, an artist and dealer in Native American art, has researched the life and work of Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo (c. 1856-1942). Elmore has closely examined the Keam collection of Hopi pottery at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has studied photographs of Nampeyo and her work, has talked with living potters, including some of Nampeyo’s descendants, and has reviewed historical literature about Nampeyo. In this book Elmore focuses on Nampeyo’s early years, including her childhood, her training, her development as an artist, and her role in the Sikyatki revival.
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“In Search of Nampeyo: The Early Years, 1875-1892” Great Book!

In Search of Nampeyo:
The Early Years 1875-1892
by Steve Elmore

Celebrating ten years of publication! In Search of Nampeyo: The Early Years 1875-1892 by Steve Elmore Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Award and the USA Book News Best Book Award “In Search of Nampeyo” is the definitive art history book of Nampeyo’s early life and career, with examples from the Thomas Keam Hopi Pottery Collection at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum.

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Eleventh Annual New Mexico Painters Exhibition

“Elmore’s work is a one-man art movement.” –James Mann, Ph.D.

Join us in Las Vegas, New Mexico for the New Mexico Painters Exhibition with featured artist Steve Elmore. Opening reception Sunday, September 15th, 4-7pm at New Mexico Highlands University. The group exhibition features work by forty regional contemporary artists and is on display through October 31st. Read curator James Mann’s essay-length statement about Steve’s work.s

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