O/B, SLR, 17 1/2 x 23 1/2", entitled "Sandstorm", Don Ivers was an artist painting in the Albuquerque area of New Mexico. In an article in Visulaizing Albuquerque, Elaine De Kooning singled out Don Ivers along with others from that area in the 1960's." New York artist Elaine de Kooning, who was important in encouraging Albuquerque artists and bringing their work to the attention of those beyond New Mexico, wrote in a 1961 essay: “With few exceptions—Peter Hurd and Henrietta Wyeth in Roswell, Georgia O’Keeffe, Eliot and Aline Porter in Santa Fe, Agnes Martin, Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak in Taos—the serious artists in New Mexico live and work in Albuquerque […] Some 20 excellent artists per 200,000 population is not merely a good percentage, it’s sensational in relation to other cities I have visited.” She goes on to talk about the fine artists on the faculty at the University of New Mexico, and adds: “Another special feature of the Albuquerque scene is the high percentage of women artists—about one-third—which situation doesn’t occur in any other city in the country except New York. Most impressive among these are Connie Fox and Joan Oppenheimer.” De Kooning also singles out Don Ivers, Bill Howard, Ralph Lewis, Richard Kurman and Jean Armistead.[2] In February of 1960, de Kooning organized a show of the work of 20 Albuquerque artists at The Great Jones Gallery in New York City, among them Connie Fox, Raymond Jonson, and Alice Garver.

Needs Cleaning. Painting is dirty

17.5 x 23.5 in