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“Rush Cole’s VIVA SANTA FE!”, 48”x 72”, oil on canvas, gallery-wrapped.

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SANTA FE ARTIST PAINTS CITY'S HISTORY

“Rush Cole’s VIVA SANTA FE!” is finished, just in time for New Mexico’s capital city’s 400th Commemorative. The 16-month-long party kicked off on Labor Day weekend, September 2009 and will continue through December 2010.

The four-feet by six-feet montage of historical, cultural, and environmental elements took more than eight months to complete. Painted in oil on canvas, Cole’s latest work of art blends pueblo feast day dancers, a Spanish horse and rider, and a rodeo bull rider, plus dozens of familiar landmarks, creating a colorful vision of this storied community. Visual surprises abound in the composition, from petroglyph- strewn rocks, to the vintage Plaza clock, and many, many more.

“In addition to being the oldest capital city in America, Santa Fe is also one of the most picturesque,” Cole asserts. “I don’t believe it could be any other way, not with three strong cultures adding to the mix. That was one of the main points I wanted to make with this painting: Santa Fe would not have the world wide allure it does today without important contributions from all of those who have resided here during the past four centuries. That fact, in itself, is worth celebrating!”

Santa Fe’s official name translates to mean “city of holy faith”. Appropriately, the colorful historic montage was even blessed midway through its creation by one of Cole’s good friends, an Episcopal priest from a parish in California. “I became a little teary when that happened; it was totally spontaneous,” Rush explained. “I’ve always felt that there were angels involved with this project, and to have a servant of God make a prayer for it sealed that feeling for me.”

This isn’t the first time that Rush Cole has painted a portrait of an entire city and its history. In 1982 she won a competition to create a definitive image of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas. Her two-feet by five-feet prototype garnered her the prize and the right to reproduce it as an eight-feet by twenty-feet, acrylic-on-canvas work of art, now on permanent display in the city’s Bay Front Plaza Convention Center.

“Corpus Christi, Texas”, 24”x 60”, acrylic on canvas, (prototype)

COPYRIGHT RUSH COLE 1982.

Cole also portrayed Indianapolis, Indiana, choosing to do so as her own project. Extensive research into the city’s history resulted in a four-feet by six-feet image, painted in oil on canvas, depicting Indiana’s capital, from its earliest days to the present.

“INDIANAPOLIS, A Portrait”, (prototype)

20”x 30”, gouache and watercolor on paper,

COPYRIGHT RUSH COLE 1990.

Limited edition giclees of “Rush Cole’s VIVA SANTA FE!”, printed on both canvas and fine quality art papers, then numbered and signed, are now available. Certificates Of Authenticity and a “Key To The City”, detailing the many pictorial elements that form the montage, are included with the reproductions.

The original oil-on-canvas painting is available for sale for $100,000.00. In the event the buyer chooses to “gift” the art to the city it depicts, steps have already been taken to allow the civic art to be exhibited permanently in a public venue, perhaps a museum, the Round House, or Santa Fe’s new convention center.

For additional information about “Rush Cole’s VIVA SANTA FE!”, and/or to order giclees, please contact the artist at 505-466-6165. VISA, MasterCard & Discover.

Rush Cole, artist

505-466-6165

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