Walter W. Nelson


The Black Place: Two Seasons





On April 19, 2014, Afterimage Gallery began a new show of color photographs by Walter W. Nelson of The Black Place, made famous by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Mr. Nelson is a photographer, painter and sculptor who lives in New Mexico. He has had numerous shows around the country and has been a working artist for decades. This latest body of work has just been published by The Museum of New Mexico in a book entitled The Black Place: Two Seasons (see the bottom of the page). This harsh treeless desert in northwest New Mexico basically has two seasons, a parched hot summer and a brutally cold winter. O'Keeffe painted there some 20 years.

She observed, "I must have seen the Black Place first driving past on a trip into the Navajo country and, having seen it, I had to go back to paint.... as you come to it over a hill, it looks like a mile of elephants­grey hills all about the same size with almost white sand at their feet.... Such a beautiful, untouched, lonely-feeling place...."



PRICING: Archival ink pigment prints can be ordered. Edition sizes are 15, and prices rise for every five prints sold. Prints that are approximately 16 inches long are $750, and ones around 26 inches long are $1,200. Larger sizes are available. Matting and shipping are extra.





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Walter Nelson, The Black Place book This is an exquisite fine-art photographic monograph published by The Museum of New Mexico. It's 12˝ x 11˝ inches in size, with over 100 pages. The price is $45.00, and it is autographed. Ground UPS shipping is $20.00. Texas residents add sales tax.





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