Need a break from the high desert heat? Stop by the library and cool off with the collections. Escape to the beach with Rebecca Salsbury James's serene reverse painting on glass, Peace (Two Shells), now on view as part of the exhibition Modernist Circle.
“The paintings on glass by Rebecca James ... are perhaps the most exquisite productions of any Taos artist ... Her paintings on glass have a strange impact upon one through their frail elegance, the inconspicuous delicacy.... Trying to analyze this knockout influence of theirs, I have wondered whether the artist actually transfers an unconscious high vibration of her own directly to the surface before her, where it is captured and maintained in equilibrium.” - Mabel Dodge Luhan, 1947
Rebecca Salsbury James, or Beck as she preferred, was a self-taught American artist who was known for her reverse painting on glass as well as her colcha embroidery, a New Mexico folk art form. James and Georgia O’Keeffe traveled to New Mexico together in 1929, which ended up being a pivotal moment in O’Keeffe’s personal life and artistic trajectory.
Need a break from the high desert heat? Stop by the library and cool off with the collections. Escape to the beach with Rebecca Salsbury James's serene reverse painting on glass, Peace (Two Shells), now on view as part of the exhibition Modernist Circle.
Rebecca Salsbury James, or Beck as she preferred, was a self-taught American artist who was known for her reverse painting on glass as well as her colcha embroidery, a New Mexico folk art form. James and Georgia O’Keeffe traveled to New Mexico together in 1929, which ended up being a pivotal moment in O’Keeffe’s personal life and artistic trajectory.
Learn more about the artist in the new subject guide, Rebecca Salsbury James.