Tag Archives: Santa Fe

Tahoma’s Guardian Angel

Posted on March 29, 2011 by pen4hire

Post by Vera As guardian angels go, you would be hard pressed to find a more unlikely one than Spanish-American, hard-working, wheeler-dealer, political-pro Eppie Montoya. But Eppie indeed served as a guardian angel when Quincy Tahoma most needed help. We … Continue reading →

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Tahoma Finds a Family

Posted on March 24, 2011 by pen4hire

Post by Vera Marie “What do you want to know about Quincy? He lived with my family.” I “discovered” the Eppie Montoya connection  in November 2001. Navajo artist Harrison Begay had written a letter to Mark Bahti, an Indian arts … Continue reading →

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Visit Tahoma’s Santa Fe Part II

Posted on March 1, 2011 by pen4hire

Post by Vera Marie * The numbers on the map do not denote Tahoma stops. Click on the map to see WikiMaps list of Santa Fe attractions. (See Stops One, Two and Three in the post directly beneath this one.) … Continue reading →

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Visit Tahoma’s Santa Fe Part I

Posted on February 28, 2011 by pen4hire

Post by Vera Marie *The numbers on this map do not show Tahoma’s stops. To see what the numbers mean, click on the map to go to its source, WikiMaps. As we plan our trip to the Santa Fe Indian … Continue reading →

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Discovering Lost Works of Art

Posted on October 18, 2010 by pen4hire

Phoenix collector Jim Bialac  told us years ago that he thought Tahoma probably painted more than 2000 paintings. That is a lot of output for a Navajo artist who died early in his life. But we think that Jim probably … Continue reading →

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New Info on Important Man in QT’s Life

Posted on September 24, 2010 by pen4hire

When Quincy Tahoma left Santa Fe High School, after extending his schooling for an extra year to concentrate on his art–a common practice at that time–he was fortunate to have the mentorship of eminent photographer T. Harmon Parkhurst. Parkhurst has … Continue reading →

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Santa Fean Article on Quincy Tahoma

Posted on March 22, 2010 by pen4hire

We wanted to alert you to an article in the Santa Fean magazine February/March 2010. Joseph Smith remembers Tahoma paintings and stories about the Navajo artist’s life woven into Smith’s own family history. We continue to be amazed at the … Continue reading →

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The Long Road to Publication of Tahoma’s Life

Posted on March 16, 2010 by pen4hire

In the last post, I explained that I (Vera) joined Charnell in the Tahoma project in the year 2000.  We had many mysteries to unravel about the Navajo artist before we were even sure that it would be possible to … Continue reading →

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