ARTIST: Carolyn Bunch (New Mexico, 20/21 century)
NAME: Portrait of Woman
MEDIUM: pastel on paper
CONDITION: Excellent. Framed under glass.
SIGHT SIZE: 16 x 14 inches / 40 x 35 cm
FRAME SIZE: 28 x 25 inches / 71 x 63 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Bunch moved to New Mexico in the 1950's, and has been involved in the arts as a public school teacher, an artist and gallery owner of Adobe Patio Gallery. She is currently one of fifteen artists featured at an exhibition at the Adobe Patio Gallery in Mesilla.She studied figure drawing for two years at the Chicago Art Institute, and also had two years of college before coming to Las Cruces. Bunch earned a degree in art education from New Mexico State University and became one of Las Cruces Public School's three elementary art teachers, traveling among schools across the district for 15 years before her retirement in 1974.Bunch opened her first gallery in 1983 in a renovated adobe building in Mesilla that dates back to 1853.