LAURA GILPIN Governor Albino Perez Monument, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1949, Signed Gelatin Silver Print 6.75x8.75 in. mounted on 14X11 in. off white board ASG# LG/1557 signed and dated on mount below print right.

Here Gilpin has photographed two young girls viewing the Mexican Territorial Governor Albino Perez's modest gravesite. Gov. Perez died in Santa Fe in the Revolt of 1837 (Chimayo Rebellion) after being decapitated by rebellious local Pueblo Indians.

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) photographed the American Southwest for more than sixty years, creating an extraordinary document of the land and its people. A contemporary of Mary Austin, Willa Cather, and Georgia O'Keeffe, she was unique among the women chroniclers of the Southwest in that photography was her medium of expression.

Gilpin was born on April 22, 1891 in Austin Bluffs, Colorado. After studying photography with Clarence White in New York she returned to Colorado to photograph the place she knew best. Through the early 1930's she produced a series of platinum and silver print masterpieces on textured paper in the pictorial tradition of Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier and others. These photographs are exemplary of the finest early twentieth century photo-secession art movement. Beginning in the early 1930's and continuing throughout her life, she made sharper edged images of the Pueblo and Navaho Indians and landscapes of unparalleled beauty of the Southwest. She moved to Santa Fe in the mid 1940s where she resided until her death in 1979. Andrew Smith who grew up in Santa Fe was a friend of GilpinÂ’s in the 1970s, visiting with here and purchasing photographs from her.

Provenance: From the collection of legendary Santa Fe American Indian Art and Trader Rex Arrowsmith, who was active from the late 1940s until his death in 2017.

Excellent. Overall Minor wear