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i LlnoOorry ■■ oil Ida docI lo in* muaoufn through Duen* Van VochMna ItutfoNew museum fills niche by displaying extensive collection of leading Taos artistsKid. N planned In be .« up *1come linn lo maintain Iho muwurnl apriation. Ovftricelng the mueeum i. a of diradan.Mcmberi of tl* bierd nr* Edwin ond Natalia Untan,Clark Funk. Mol Welmer. Kmd.( Sehlenker and LBIin-t~rry laid h* first mol Doan*-, Von Vcehten in 1938 when ho camo lo Too. lo remodel Hit otud* which »e**re • the muaumi anlranto. Thai otudo iiipnilly wai baill in 1929..o wsrhod k„„ * th. .ur morind fall of 1938 and Ih.n aim- both in March ef IWT - ho «vj Thai -« whan Iho - all went up erd iho r.r-rhheurn .» eUrled which later b«aM their hoaa*.Iho Mllotticn which wm Ih. bum. f» Iho museum originally tn etartadin Iho 19201 by Ralph Von Veehton. Du-ona a (other, a man oho knew many of TW trending artiala pcrtcoally.Duane Van Voeht*n woo Vee?pereonebla. Lmobtery uid. friendlyUko mill people, iho woo drffteult lo gal acquainted wKh. I mean yre didnlwalk in Mid meet her today and.'immediately become friiraUlShe wai 'a wonderful penen,-LimJwrr, laid. 'I donY think I overhoard inytee lay anything agalnil her and I think both of ui over Iho yearshave been vert- diecrete. Bock in Ihe early yean, a lot of people here in Tiw (hat did not hove onregh focd. didn't have blanked* on tbeirbed*. lUpt on Ihe fleer. they would bring ut a liet here 1*0 or three wceka before Cbnatmen and •lt; dad 4 all for thorn. We didnY ju« take them focd or bUoVeU ce clothing.we eon them everything Ithcyneeded!Ihe only thing they atveed, Uneberiy •aid. woe thol Iho rectgionti not re-eel the oMirru of thoir gift* Juat toll them tha you fell heir to it, ho uld they were told Duane Van Vochtea wai a graduate ef the Art I net!to*. of Chicago. whero ■ho list d4 [oil graduate work She traveled oiUniocly. otudylrg the ort in ntllorini lad muicuou in■ill Iref the moceBectiinainfallen.ii fcunte In Taor iho toik painting cloiioi with Emil Dliocrum.Taoi in throe day. *oo Juat a typicalimall town. UnB-rry oaid. with Cheold charncten around, artiala. John Dunn (* gambler and tmtrepreoeur whom home no* la a tenet cf ahopt on Bent Street! people of that kind. Kay Itc-kn the dxtoe Yw knew morybody When ye*. went to to»n In tho mereing it didn't muter if it wan yeei or who it wao. Td la. ‘fiend mormng.' *During hie early year, in Tm holandmark! here. A carpenter lr trade, Uneberry laid ha followed h» (nth*, int* the controdf* buBeieeee ond workid m building! from Lea Angel*. to Kon-taiCity.I ve bean in ceeialroetBfl. 1 gueie ..or .into I -oi old cewagh to hold ohammer* h. olidIn Taoi he -at re-pmiibW for building and o|.ruling the Koch mo Udge. |uot loath of FJ Roacho d. M Ms-ipoH It was m the Ivlge. Kiva CofT- Shop that Duane Von Vcchtcn earns! the weodon toUm pile at iu eentar. The carving* Nov.Ho I 'mhoiry Mid. are noant to reprftent bird. h*9M. mui and infinity. A painting chowing it in pragreia hongi in the mueeum entrnnc* *Lwirberty alio bulk and ran a nwc-ceuful groeory itore m th* Monpon Building, next doe* to the Tali Poit Of-(lc. nn Phmo del Puifcki Norte, and Mlid he woe the firot to build Cenlin.I Bonk en Paoeo del PuobVi Sur lie laid he know eome of thn btor ort-U uuh i. Nikolai Poehln and Lren Guipurd, -ilh whom he hunted. Aihed and rode horwa Van V»hun KufT.r.d a itrokft m tho early 1970ft end di*d in January of 1977. Tw» yearn later Lwebenyrtiaarriad. Norclla Uneborry gre* upnear Stiil-aU-r. Okla . and hi. I.«d in New Meoco for the low. *b yrani Oicr tho ylt;ur* Edwin Uneberry •aid, he b«g«nto otire that werka by early Tao! artlifa w.r. •hnwiog up in muoeumft and prii-ole aill-rlon. all over the naticn He Mid b«*u-» c/lhw. every time o piloting by one of them wo. loight end tokoi frcm Taoe. It uomid to dlmmilh tha cultural rcmiunei antilahle her.That waa *biy th. oumi. wootabliehod. to k«pTaae art in Tam. In •icdsng. it fill, a nsh. and olio—lToMftAoi, viBtori md xkolar. a chmeo to m. Ih. worko that mode thie eenmu-niiy m wrfl known oi a eont*r cf Seuth •The Van VrehUn-UnelxftTy Taoi An M ooia m open Tieeday through Friday from 11 a.m. to * pa and en -*ekendi from 130 to « P m. Ado^aien m *5 fe* adulU and » fc* childron ov«leaned at 501 Paoeo dol Pttcbto Norte, near th. -utranot to Toco Putb lc For wore infcrmatWn call 758-1S90.* Taoa Puobto drum ok* betoru the hanacarvod hroploco *acado
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Taos News
Taos, New Mexico, US
Thu, Dec 15, 1994
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