Long Shadow Storm

This piece is priced as matted and framed. Please contact artist for photos of art including framing. I loved watching, and trying to keep up with,... more

by Beverley Harper Tinsley

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Price

$95

Dimensions

7.000 x 5.000 inches

Title

Long Shadow Storm

Artist

Beverley Harper Tinsley

Medium

Painting - Watercolor And Graphite

Description

This piece is priced as matted and framed. Please contact artist for photos of art including framing. I loved watching, and trying to keep up with, the ever-changing sky in Taos, New Mexico, as a storm moved in on this ranch-land meadow. The red of the willow bushes in the foreground perfectly framed the scene. Shadows rippled across the foothills and mountains behind.
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Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico, incorporated in 1934. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,716. Other nearby communities include Ranchos de Taos, Caņon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, El Prado, and Arroyo Seco. The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American village and tribe from which it takes its name.
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Taos is also the county seat of Taos County. The name is also referred to by the nearby ski resort of Taos Ski Valley. The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "place of red willows".
This original painting is available as matted and framed. It is currently available for viewing at Studio Z Dental in Louisville, Colorado.
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The Taos Pueblo, that borders the town of Taos on its north side, has been occupied for nearly a millennium. It is estimated that the pueblo was built between 1000 and 1450 A.D., with some later expansion, and the pueblo is considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited community in the United States.
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Located in a tributary valley off the Rio Grande, it is the most northern of the New Mexico pueblos. The Pueblo, at some places five stories high, is a combination of many individual homes with common walls. There are over 1,900 people in the Taos pueblo community. Some of them have modern homes near their fields and stay at their homes on the pueblo during cooler weather. There are about 150 people who live at the pueblo year-around. The Taos Pueblo was added as an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 as one of the most significant historical cultural landmarks in the world; Other sites include the Taj Mahal, Great Pyramids and the Grand Canyon in the United States.

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September 5th, 2011