Frank Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist and Preservationist

Albuquerque, New Mexco: LPD Press, 2001. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8 1/2" X 11. Rhetts, Paul; Awalt, Barbe - Book and Cover Design. 295 Pages with a seven page comprehensive index. Gift quality condition. Interior text and illustration pages are near flawless. Original cover price $39.95. Cover painting is Hopi Katcina Dance first exhibited in 1923. Frank Applegate was a well-established artist on the East Coast when he moved to Santa Fe in 1921. He was immediately drawn into the art of the Native American and Hispanic cultures and became a moving force in the Santa Fe art scene. Applegate, along with Mary Austin, founded the Spanish Colonial Arts Society whose 75th anniversary is July 2001. Applegate was known for his watercolours, oil paintings, ceramics, and santos. This thoughtful and concise biography is written by Applegate's great-nephew and his wife who had access to family papers and to photographs by Ansel Adams. Contents: A Tribute to Gretchen Hieronymus Beall, Dedication by Gerald P. Peters, Foreword by William Wroth, Introduction, A Farmer's Son, Genius in the Making, East Coast Artist, The Wonder of Santa Fe, The Sculptural Architect, The Southwestern Artist, Life Among the Artists, Frank and Mary, The Chautauqua and Old Santa Fe, Applegate the Activist, The Artists and the Indians, Spanish Colonial Revival, From Brush to Pen: Applegate the Writer, The Spanish Colonial Arts Book, Death of a Renaissance Man, Epilogue: The End of an Era, and Bibliography.