RUSH COLE FINE ART
~Painting the richness of Life!~
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~SANTA FE ARTIST PAINTS CITY'S HISTORY~
“Rush Cole’s VIVA SANTA FE!” is a glowingly vibrant tribute to this most legendary capital city in the American Southewest. The four-feet by six-feet montage of historical, cultural, and environmental elements required more than two years of intense research and labor to create. Painted in oil on canvas, Cole’s civic work of art blends three central pictorial elements: ceremonial Pueblo Feast Day dancers, a Spanish horse and rider, and a rodeo bull rider, plus dozens of familiar landmarks and events, creating a colorful vision of the 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 as a foundational 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 these, and various other cultures, too, that have resided here during the past several centuries.
Santa Fe’s official name translates to mean “City of Holy Faith”. Rush admits that it took a strong sense of faith in herself to stay focused and to bring the vision, that only she could see in her mind until it had been painted on physical canvas, into material reality!
"VIVA SANTA FE!”
48" x 72", oil on canvas, gallery-wrapped.
Copyright Rush Cole
