No bows and arrows, no hunting buffalo on horseback. Walter Ufer saw first-hand that Native Americans in the 1920s weren't the romanticized caricatures from the old Wild West shows.
In today's episode we're looking at “Callers” and find out how a city boy from Chicago ended up in Taos, NM and broke all the rules when it came to depicting his friends and neighbors as real people trying to balance the modern world with tradition.
SHOW NOTES
“A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/
Episode Music
“Free Guitar Riding Blues” and “Follow the Little Creek” by Loco Lobo. Courtesy of Free Music Archive
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/completly-free/free-guitar-riding-blues-f-014
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/verona/follow-the-little-creek-faster-id-1386
“Clusticus the Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle. Courtesy of the artist
https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle
Artwork information
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/callers-24394
Artist info
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/walter-ufer-4912
https://www.historynet.com/walter-ufer/?f
https://cometatomic.com/walter-ufer-a-remarkable-journey-through-art-and-activism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ufer
https://www.illinoisart.org/essays/walter-ufer#_ftn23
Ufer letter
https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll1/id/1930
Taos Artists Society
“The Taos Society of Artists : Masters & Masterworks” by Amy Scott (Internet Archive)
https://archive.org/details/taossocietyofart0000scot
Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/callers-ufer/
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