Sheldon Parsons Grand Canyon of the Colorado Puzzle Pins On another level

On another level

One cannot truly contemplate the history and culture of Santa Fe without the voices of the Native Americans--the original inhabitants of Po’oge

Edited by Marta Weigle with Frances Levine and Louise Stiver

75" on 18" x 20" paper

a pervasive quality that’s sometimes enough to make my hair stand on end

Sheldon Parsons Grand Canyon of the Colorado Puzzle Pins On another levelA 300 piece puzzle of Sheldon Parsons, "Grand Canyon of the Colorado", 1918, oil on canvas painting. From the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Sheldon Parsons (1866 1943) established his career in New York as a portraitist, but felt the pull to the southwest by 1913. Once in New Mexico, Parsons found the terrain of New Mexico irresistible. In fact the impact of the dry, pure air and bare landscape was sufficiently strong to change Parsons'