Southwest Oil Paintings - Sold & New Works

Southwest Traditional Oil Paintings by Nick Justinian

"Above the Anasazi Antlers"

H20" X W24" Oil. Provenance: New. 

Announcing a new work by the artist Nick Justinian, featuring details of early Southwest domestic life in an ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) cliff-dwelling scene. These portray the presence of Native handmade items, such as pottery & basketry drying in the sun, woven textiles hanging under a beam, and domestic traces like the old clay/brick oven for baking, and the chimney-smoke rising above the dwelling on the left, each representing their role in domestic life. Also shown is the title namesake, or ‘Antlers’, which are still displayed above dwellings even today on Native reservations. Primarily to showcase hunting pride and to commemorate successful hunts, antlers historically represented masculine energy, strength, and the ability to conquer. But here, they point upward instead.

The Anasazi doorway is framed by hundreds of colors for the mason’s stone work, and were struck & made with a palette-knife. Its window-like opening allows us to see to the other side a view of an unfinished wall in need of repair, and/or represents both the past and the future simultaneously, where the site could be understood as a new in-progress reconstruction of a dwelling from earlier paleo-inhabitants. The cavernous overhang at the top represents a high cliff-dwelling roof above, as a permanent reminder over the community below it, providing shade and steadfast protection for generations, not unlike the Rock of Ages.

"The Belfry Rallies" - Oil on Canvas. H20" X W24" (in progress; a process-state photo).

"The Outpost" - Oil on Canvas. H18" X W24" (in progress; a process-state photo).

• "Tolling the Countryside" Oil on Canvas. H12" X W16" - 199X. Sold.

Provenance: Edmund Craig Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas. 
Private Collection.

• "Washing Anasazi Pottery" Oil on Canvas. 
H30" X W24" - 199X. Sold.
Provenance: Edmund Craig Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas. Private Collection.

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