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on notes THK TAOS NKW.S Thursday. Dec. Southwestern photographer Laura Gilpin dies MKfllM A aYWMKaY LAliltA OILPIN. distinguished photographer, died at St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, Nov JO.

She was M. Ollpln Included many Taos subjects Its people, ar lista' work, the landscape and architecture In her vast collection of work, spanning a career beginning In 1904. She had counted Taos friends over several generations. Nearly all the photographs of the artists' worts and several of the artists, featured In Mabel Dodge Luhan'a book. Taos and Its Artists, published In JM7, were by ailpin.

In her own book, The Rio Grande River of Destiny, 1949, ailpin presented a photographic study of more than 200 camera shots with her own text. Taos Is represented with photographs of the Pueblo, some of its people, Taos Mountain. Rio Orande Gorge, grave of Kit Carson, St. Francis de Assist Church, Ranches de Taos; and Spanish-American settlements of little farms between Taos and Santa Fe. The Rio Grande River of Destiny traces the rtvcr from Its source In the springs and trickles of melting snow, beginning at 14.000 feet In Colorado and descending to the Quit of Mexico 1800 miles away.

Ollpln's books Include The Enduring Navajo, The Pueblos, and The Temples of Yucatan, as well as a book she photographed at Canyon de Chelly, commissioned by the School of American Research, Santa Fe. She has a prominent place in Margaretta Mitchell's new ILA MCAFEE Robin McKinney McAfee paints horses Ila McAfee is famous in Taos for painting horses: summer horses, winter horses, winged horses, show animals, Indian ponies, appaloosas, duns and bays. What her neighbors often forget is that she paints other subjects too, and with equal skill. In her studio on Armory Street her canvases hang on the walls, are stacked in the corners and rest on the furniture. There are landscapes, scenes with buffalos and Indians, sunsets and, of course, horses.

The studio is what one would imagine an old-time Taos studio to be, with thick adobe walls, Navajo rugs, well-used palettes, shelves and windowsills covered with plants, bits of rock and souvenirs collected through the years. She and her husband came to Taos in 1928 and built the adobe house at the edge of an alfalfa field. At first they had a hand-pump for water and a battery-run electric generator. The field has become offices and parking spaces for Mountain Bell, and last year McAfee celebrated her 50th anniversary of painting in Taos. She is still working hard.

She sketches horses in Ranchitos fields, fulfills commissions to paint ranchers' horses, entertains tourists and paints to get ready for a show. Growing up on a ranch near Gunnlson, with no children her age nearby, she became interested in drawing and horses. She was able to draw them from memory. She had plenty of time to study them, riding five miles to school each day, or going in a two-horse driven sled in the winter time. Her love of the animals Is looB stars Dec.

13-20 We are entering upon the holy season a spiritual quiet time a time filled with expectancy awaiting the sun's rebirth when the sun will rise northward in its orbit and we will have begun a new solar cycle, a new solar year. This season should be a time of joy, of loving and giving, forgiving, and exchanging gifts. Here are a few astrological hints which could make the difference. ARIES March 21 April ID Of course one of the things Aries would like for Christmas is his-her own way. If you can't see your way clear to arrange that, then give them Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays or something with a diamond or a ruby in it, or something made of stainless steel.

And give them lots of love. TAUKUH April 30 May 20 They'd like all their demands met and their desires satisfied. Maybe you could give them a business all their own instead or a kiss on the ears, the cheek or the neck or how about a piece of the Blarney Stone, a piece of green jade or something copper which improves their tuck. CKMINI May 21-June Ml Give Geminis the green grass on the other side of the fence. One of their favorite gifts, however, a good conversation.

Excite their minds and they get excited ail over. Let them pretend to be somebody else. Give them silver wings and all kinds of odd things and knowing winks. KK June 21 July 88 Give them Mondays to do with as they wish. Give them financial security or a piece of property.

Give them the moon. But you'd better be sure you have to give Give them a formal dinner with friends and or an elephant from (carved ivory, of or a pearl of wisdom MSO July 23 Aug. Giye them a screen test for Christmas, then a starring role or a play to direct. And, of course, what they want obedience, without any trouble, but giving them loving attention them obedient. Whatever you give them.

It's gotta have heart. VflYtiO Aug. SS They like perfection, ao you know where vow can get it you've got it made. Short of that, how about a trip to Paris or Switzerland, or a Swiss bank account. Some Virgos like Brazilian coffee and Turkish tobacco or a Turkish bath.

Give them command of Wednesdays. LIBRA Sept. 28 Oct. 82 First of all, give them time to make up their minds as much time as they need, before it's too late. Venus, the goddess of love, rules this sign, so a venusian figurine would excite them.

Give them something silky and velvety they can wear close to the skin, or a set of scales, or an opal. SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 91 Give them something mysterious and secretive like secret inside information or a mythical power object, a piece of black jade. Give them any night they want.

For their car a stainless steel eagle for a hood ornament. For home a magic sword, a magic want, a ruby or empathy. Nov. W- Uec. Hi Give them Las Vegas or Reno in the new year.

Give them the big time. They're romantic, idealistic and serious all at the same time, you see. They dream big so give them a big dream. Make it come true or give them 'Joseph Rynear something to spice up their lives. Give them candy.

CAPRICORN Dec, 22 Jan. 19 You should give them all the prestige and acclaim they deserve. Find out first how much they think they deserve so there'll be no mistakes. Give them a unicorn or a chair that resembles a throne. Give them Saturdays.

Give them an ivory tower. Give them understanding and affection. AQUARIUS Jan. 30 Feb. 18 Whatever it is you give them, it must be one-of-a- kind.

Just like they are. Something like the transporter from the Starship Enterprise, or a time machine, or a do-it- yourself, all-purpose, automatic laser outfit, or a computer that knows everthing and will tell it only to them. Then they'll tell us. PISCES Feb. 10 Mart SO They like unspoken, reassuring empathy, feeling.

So give as much as you can. They are the mermaids and mermen of the zodiac. All the beings of the aea are empaths. Give them something from the sea like a friendly dolphin or a silver one to remind them. Or rub their feet and legs where their fins and tails used to be.

clear. She wears a silver horse pin, and has a horse appliqued on her pantsuit. As a young woman she worked in Chicago and met her husband, a World War I veteran, there. He was an artist too. In her studio is the cover of a Literary Digest that he designed In the year Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean.

Other artists' works decorate the room, including a flying horse carved by Frank Lyoti. As a sign of the esteem locals hold for her. the Blue Door Gallery at Taos Inn will open a show Friday (Dec. 14) with a reception, from 5-7 p.m. of her paintings, along with loaned works by other Taos artists featured In Mabel Dodge Luhan's book Tuns anil lift Arlinl.i.

Thursday thru Sunday at 7:30 only Sunday at 8 pm only ROBERT DENIRO A FILM Ot CHEAT COURAGE Sat Matinee at 2 4 "YELLOW SUBMARINE" MONDAY AND TUESDAY CLOSED Fiber Works By: SUSAN COLE FROM SANTA FE NATIONALLY KNOWN ARTIST Showing at: The Clay and Fiber Gallery Sponsored by Aaron Sanchez, Jr. book, Ten Women of Photography, from Viking Press, available at the Taos Book Shop. The Amon carter Museum, Fort Worth, made a television documentary of Ollpln's life and work two months ago, when she took photographs from a plane for one of the segments. She left her collection of 90.000 negatives and all of her prints, to this museum which plans to publish a catalogue of the entire Ollpln collection. Oilpin was the recipient of honorary degrees from the University of New Mexico and Colorado College, arid the New Mexico Governor's Award.

National and international recognition came to her late, as she worked most of her life in relative obscurity, never publicizing or promoting her work. However, her photographs were this an briefs Famous silversmith from Pilar, well known for his Indian jewelry all over the world. Equity to meet Artists Equity Association's Taos chapter will meet Saturday (Dec. 18) to brief Secretary Catherine Kels for a National Ethics Committee meeting in Washington, D.C. at the end of this month.

The chapter will meet at President Noel de Gaetano's studio on Raton Road In Canon at 7:30 p.m. All professional artists are invited. Traditionally the Equity represented only the fine arts painters and sculptors. De Gaetano said all workers In the visual arts, Including photographers, commercial artists and craft- spersons are welcome. For information on the meeting call 768-8449 or 8944.

Hall shows "Cowboys and Indians," photographs by Douglas Kent Hall, will be on view at Maggie Kress Gallery, beginning Saturday (Dec. 15). Hall has worked in America and Kurope as photographer, has been a professor, written a number of novels, best-selling works of non-fiction and screenplays Including the Academy Award-winning The Great American Cowboy. His photos, short stories and articles have appeared in publications as diverse as Vogue, Rulliny Stone. Newsweek and Penthouse.

His Indian photos have a sense of dignity, grace and spiritual depth. The cowboy series is more explosive. Hall lives In the Rio Grande Valley in Alcalde. Opening reception for his show Is 4-6 p.m. Saturday (Dec.

161. Benefit planned Several benefits for the New Mexico Music Festival at Taos are planned for December. A wine-tasting party with hors d'oeuvrea, live music, belly dancing, numbers from Gu.i/.s and and wine samples will be held at the Tennis Ranch, Saturday (Dec. 15), 3-6 p.m. Wine master Helmut Piegsa will give a presentation at p.m.

Tickets are $5, and may be purchased at the door or at Total Arts Gallery. Douglas Kent Hall's documentary film The tin-tit American Cowboy will be shown Sunday (Dec. 16) at 5.30 p.m. at the Taos Community Auditorium. Donation Is $1.

Bilingual play to open The Adobe Rabbit, a bilingual play with cast of youngsters, opens Friday (Dec. 15 at iheTCA. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday 2 30 p.m.Sunday. exhibited and acquired by museums throughout country, and are in museums In England.

Some of her New Mexico photographs were on display at show of American photography at the Whitney Museum in New York this autumn. Born In Colorado Springs, she made her first trip to Santa Fe In and returned for residence in m7. She photographed over the entire Southwest. The second annual exhibition of WOMEN IN IHt SOl'THWimT, will continue through Dec. 28 at the Albuquerque United Artists Downtown Center for the Arts, 216Central S.W The exhibition Is partially funded by the New Mexico Arts Division and the National Endowment for the Arts.

LARKY IIKI.I/K exhibition of vapor drawings, now showing at the Marlon Uoodman Gallery, 38 East 57th New York. NY. will be on view there until 1. Entitled Noble Metals, a series of works on paper, opened at tho Gallery, Ixia Angeles, Nov. 30, to extend to Jan.

ft. Bell did the series especinly for this show. THK ANTHONY MANZOM of Collectors Gallery have returned from trip East, with new watercolors by Arthur J. Harbour A.W.S., of Kingwood, N.J.. his autographed books and others by their artists.

During their sojourn they visited with Richard Botto. another of their exhibitors. THK I'KKRY SHOW. Christmas in New Mexico, ABC television. In which Maria Benitez of Taos performs a dance In Santa Fe's Sena Plaza, has been rescheduled for tomorrow (Dee.

i rather than Dec. 15 as previously announced. Time People page, Dec. 3, Included a photograph of Como with actress Greer Garson who will recite the poem. Cfiri.itnin.i Ki-e in Santo Fr.

In the production. KM I'll (ho Western States Arts Foundation Newsletter for November-December, has a photograph of flamenco artist Maria Henltez with the following comments: "Heel-stamping accents, fiery classical guitar, dramatic costumes put It all together and you have flamenco, the spiciest dance of all. When Maria Uenltcz dances dances with everything she Is, and It Is this outpouring of herself Into every performance that sets the Maria Itanitz Dance Company apart. "Maria and her dancers, accompanied by traditional singer and guitarist, have dazzled audiences nationwide with delicate classical dances and the traditional flamenco, and infected residency classes with a love for this exacting and exciting dance form." Critics praised Henltez's talent when she and her company appeared In New York ju.st recently. The New York Tintt-x carried a long review with photograph of the dancer, noted as a strong technician.

A critic for- called her heelwork and sensltlvty to changes In rhythm "superb," and pointed out that she also approaches Spanish dances as a contemporary art form, not as a hidebound traditionalist. Maria and her company performed in the celebrated New York Dance Umbrella series. A has among new works, two etchings, "Storm Clouds Over Vallecito" and "Harvesting the Old Way" by Gene Kloss. N.A.; Ronald Cheek's oils of Southwestern landscapes; Joan McConnell's watercolors of the Alamos area and florals; Sam Oswald's egg temperas of Nambe scenes; and Frank Talbert's contemporary acrylics. Radio A Franchisee! Dealer Rancho Park Mall Paseo del Pueblo Sur 758-8321 A computer lor not? Come in and see the TRS 80, only $499.00 Stereo Recorder $139.95 Calculators for all ages and occassions Nova 6 speakers $79.95 NOW 2 for $39.95 Each Now under the new management of Jim Adamson and Bob Trivalos Open 12-5 p.m.

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