People in a Hard Land: Iconic Images of Life in the Southwest January 11, 2013

This new exhibition focuses on memorable images of people in the American Southwest. It explores subjects in Southwestern art that have appeared with sufficient frequency and poignancy to become truly iconic, Pioneers, cowboys, and Indians moving across a vast uninhabited landscape, Men and women engaged in the hard labor of taming a wild land, Western faces: tough, weatherworn, stoic, self-reliant, patient, wise, open, and honest and People from different cultures living in harmony with nature and each other.