When Alfred Morang’s Canyon Road studio caught fire on January 29, 1958, the Santa Fe art community was shocked to the core.
“Alfred Morang, 56, one of Santa Fe’s best known and most colorful Bohemians died at about 1:30 am last night in a tragic fire at his home in the 600 block of Canyon Road,” reported the Santa Fe New Mexican the next morning.
Decades after Morang’s death, local art scholar Paul Parker conducted a national search for a box of the artist’s writings and personal effects that had passed down through the Morang family. The ephemera he discovered—including a charred violin, sketches and extensive writings—will appear alongside artwork by Morang and other New Mexico modernists of the period in MORANG & FRIENDS at Matthews Gallery (669 Canyon Road) on Dec. 12-26, 2014.
In this special catalog, Matthews Gallery presents the art and artifacts that will appear in the first Santa Fe retrospective of Alfred Morang's artwork in over a decade.
