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Lumpkins, William

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Lumpkins William - Lazan 1939 unframed edit Lazan 1939 9 3/4 x 21 3/8 inches Signed and dated: lower right
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Lumpkins William - Untitled 1944 unframed edit Untitled 1944 Watercolor on paper 14 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches Signed and dated: lower right
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Lumpkins William - Untitled Gray Triangle 1940 unframed edit Untitled Gray Triangle Watercolor on paper 13 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches Signed & dated: lower right
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Lumpkins William - Attachment is Contrary to Freedom 1940 unframed edit Attachment is Contrary to Freedom 1940 Watercolor on paper 10 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches Signed & dated: lower right
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Lumpkins William - Untitled 1935 unframed edit untitled Watercolor on paper 1935 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 Signed: lower right
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Lumpkins William - Paint from the Inner Eye 1971 unframed Paint From the Inner Eye 1971, (0039) Watercolor on paper, 17 5/8 x 23 ½ inches Signed & dated: lower right initials Verso: titled & dated
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Lumpkins William - High Desert Series - MODZR 1968 unframed High Desert Series: MODZR 1963 Watercolor on paper Signed & dated: lower right
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Lumpkins William - High Desert Series - SR 1971 unframed High Desert Series: SR 1971 Watercolor on paper 35 x 31 inches Signed & dated: lower right
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Lumpkins-William---Summer-Rays-1974-unframed Summer Rays 1974 Watercolor on paper 18 x 24 inches Signed & dated: lower right
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Lumpkins William - Paint Beyond Nature 1946 unframed Untitled - (0010) 1991 Watercolor on paper, 7 ½ x 12 inches Signed & dated: lower right
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Lumpkins William - Untitiled No5 1938 unframed Untitled #5 - (0122) ca. 1938-39 Watercolor on paper, 7 ½ x 11 ¼ inches Signed: lower right, initials
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Lumpkins William - XXXH 1948 unframed Untitled - (0812 TW) 1948 Watercolor on paper, 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches Signed & dated: lower left
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Lumpkins William - Untitled Landscape 1984 unframed
Lumpkins William - Spring Among the Pinon Hills 1985 unframed
Lumpkins William - High Desert Series - Gist unframed
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Lumpkins William - From one's Vision from the Past 1936 unframed
Lumpkins William - Untitiled 1931 unframed
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Lumpkins William - Dark Canyon 1940 edit
Lumpkins William - Lazan 1939 unframed edit
Lumpkins William - Untitled 1944 unframed edit
Lumpkins William - Untitled Gray Triangle 1940 unframed edit
Lumpkins William - Attachment is Contrary to Freedom 1940 unframed edit
Lumpkins William - Untitled 1935 unframed edit
Lumpkins William - Paint from the Inner Eye 1971 unframed
Lumpkins William - High Desert Series - MODZR 1968 unframed
Lumpkins William - High Desert Series - SR 1971 unframed
Lumpkins-William---Summer-Rays-1974-unframed
Lumpkins William - Paint Beyond Nature 1946 unframed
Lumpkins William - Untitiled No5 1938 unframed
Lumpkins William - XXXH 1948 unframed
William Lumpkins: Seven Decades of Abstraction

Bill Lumpkins was born in 1909 on the Rabbit Ears Ranch in Clayton, New Mexico. His early education came from a tutor who instilled a lasting interest in Zen Buddhism in the young artist.  His education moved him to Roswell, NM in 1924.

It was in Roswell where Bill met his friend and contemporary, Peter Hurd, and the two young artists spent much time sketching together with Hurd coaching Lumpkins in his early efforts.

Lumpkins’ abstract work predated by ten years most of the Abstract Expressionists in America who came in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s.  In early 1930, Lumpkins saw a group of watercolors by John Marin which were being hung for a show in Taos.  Shortly after, Lumpkins completed his first abstract work, a small watercolor called Dancing Trees.  He surprised himself with that painting and has come to view it as a milestone.

Lumpkins moved to Santa Fe in 1935, where he met Raymond Jonson.  It was through Jonson that Lumpkins became involved in 1938 with the Transcendentalist Painting Group founded by with Jonson and Emil Bisttram.  These artists were committed to the transcendental philosophy that one achieved artistic fulfillment by going beyond sensical experience into spiritual realms.  Lumpkins, a key figure in the Santa Fe art community, was also the pioneer of passive solar architecture and founded the Santa Fe Art Institute in 1985.

Lumpkins was honored in 1998 with the Distinguished Artist Award from the Santa Fe Rotary Foundation as well as with a show of his architectural designs at the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts. The Roswell Museum presented a major retrospective of the artist’s work in 1995, and he was one of the six featured artists at the alcove show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe in 1994/95.

His work has garnered awards from Santa Fe to Paris and his works are in the collections of major museums from the Smithsonian to California.

Sources include The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies by Arrell Morgan Gibson

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