Frank Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist and Preservationist

by Labinsky, Daria; Hieronymus, Stan

• ISBN13: 9781890689025
• ISBN10: 1890689025
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Lpd Pr

Summary

The extraordinarily talented Frank Applegate died prematurely at his Santa Fe home in 1931. Well-known in his day as an artist, collector, craft revivalist, and author, he is now largely forgotten. This splendid, readable biography should help make his name familiar once more. I give it an enthusiastic recommendation. The contemporary Hispanic artists of New Mexico -- especially the modern-day santeros -- owe a great deal to the visionary artist Frank Applegate. He helped to set the stage for the modern world to appreciate, collect, and love the religious art of my people. Carefully researched and elegantly written, this volume provides a well-rounded portrait of Frank Applegate, an artist who made significant contributions to the culture of Santa Fe in the 1920s. In telling Applegate's story, the authors provide a fascinating view of life in Santa Fe during that time. This book is lavishly illustrated with old photographs and pictures of Applegate's art work. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Daria Labinsky and Stan Hieronymus are former newspaper editors with more than 30 years of journalism experience between them. They have written three books and hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and online articles

Table of Contents

A tribute to Gretchen Hieronymus Beall	1	(1)
Acknowledgements	1	(2)
Dedication	3	(2)
Gerald P. Peters
Foreword	5	(4)
William Wroth
Introduction	9	(2)
A Farmer's Son	11	(6)
`Genius' in the Making	17	(16)
East Coast Artist	33	(18)
The Wonder of Santa Fe	51	(10)
The Sculptural Architect	61	(6)
The Southwestern Artist	67	(24)
Life among the Artists	91	(82)
Frank and Mary	173	(4)
The Chautauqua and Old Santa Fe	177	(6)
Applegate the Activist	183	(10)
The Artists and the Indians	193	(18)
Spanish Colonial Revival	211	(26)
From Brush to Pen: Applegate the Writer	237	(18)
The Spanish Colonial Arts Book	255	(10)
Death of a Renaissance Man	265	(8)
Epilogue: The End of an Era	273	(8)
Bibliography	281	(8)
Index	289