At the Albuquerque Museum through February 12th.
The exhibition reassembles the paintings that were in Cole’s studio when he died in 1848 and explores the significance of Cole’s late work for art in America. Thomas Cole was the founder of the Hudson River School. This group of painters established an iconic style of American landscape painting.
Items from the English-American painter’s studio at Albuquerque Museum.
Ann at the New Mexico History Museum. Bench design was based on one at her home.
A memorial for Chan will be held on Friday, October 7, 10:00 am, at All Saints Lutheran Church in Paradise Hills.
The church was designed by Chan and built in 1966. It retains 12 of his stained glass windows.
TACA members were sad to hear that board member Chan Graham has died. Read an earlier post about him here.
Joe Sabatini sent the news, noting than Chan had been a member of TACA since its first efforts to save Albuquerque’s Alvarado Hotel. He described one of Chan’s projects in the North Valley: the All Nations Assembly of God.
Chan designed it in a way that the congregation could build it themselves with adobe bricks that they made. It was one of Chan’s favorite projects during his long architectural career, and the site of Chan and Tamara’s wedding.
Albuquerque schools have a long history. By 1598 there were at least five Spanish missions in the area seeking to convert and educate Natives.
Few if any early structures remain. Often new schools were built on or near the locations of the old.
There were 138 schools in the New Mexico Territory in 1875. In 1891 the Territorial Legislature passed a bill allowing municipalities to tax for schools. That’s the year the Albuquerque Public School Board, now one of the nation’s largest, began. There are 144 schools in APS today.
Four ward schools in each of the city’s political wards, were built soon after. The Central School followed in 1900.
Ward One School, opened in 1882, was located at Edith and Martin Luther King Blvd. where Longfellow Elementary is now.
Ward Two School was at 900 Edith boulevard, south of Eugene Field Elementary School. No apparent trace remains.
The Ward Three School was on the site of Coronado Elementary near Fourth and Iron SW. Coronado was built in 1937 with WPA funds.
Ward Four School burned down in 1933. It was located where Lew Wallace Elementary is now.
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