Laura Gilpin
Iām hoping that as I improve my skills, my drawings will look less and less like the source subject and more like my own. If you just tuned in, this is the 19th of 100 drawings Iām creating for my Drawing Art History project. Join me as I learn to draw in public! š
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Illustration based on Laura Gilpin (American, 1891 - 1979). 1945. The Church at Cundiyo. black-and-white photographs. Place: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the artist. https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMONIG_10313895225.
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Growing up in Colorado, Laura Gilpin began taking photos as a teenager, eventually honing her craft in New York and Europe. She settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico and spent her 60+ year career creating a photographic record of Navajo life, as well as being one of the few female landscape photographers of her time. She published numerous books, including The Rio Grande: River of Destiny (1949), where she photographed the entire length of the river and how communities exist and sustain themselves around it.