Denham Clements has an unusual history for a photorealistic painter, and is enjoying and even more unusual success. His work has been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, the Albuquerque Museum, US Ambassador's Residence, Lima, Peru, the Tucson Museum of Art, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, as well as collections throughout the US and abroad.
Cowboy Recluse
Ledford Mayo, a long time resident of the dry pastureland outside of Tres Piedras, actually migrated to northern NM and the banks of the Rio Grande river from the hard times of the Oklahoma “Dust Bowl”. In the 1930’s he and his family made the long trek in a Conestoga wagon. Destined to a hardscrabble existence in the riverbank village of Pilar, then northward to TP, Led broke horses and raised meager herds of cattle most of his life. A mostly shy, soft-spoken man, he would look down, kick the dirt, shake his head and proudly say in a quiet, raspy voice, “It’s all I’ve ever done.”
Cowboy Recluse
40”H x 50”W
Acrylic on Canvas
$4500 SOLD!!
