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John DePuy
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John's work spans over 6 decades. He originally studied Abstract Expressionism in the 1950's in Manhattan with Hans Hoffman. Heeding the advice of Mark Rothko, he returned to the Southwest for "the source of his art was there." He then became active in the group the "Taos Moderns" studying with Louis Ribak and brushing shoulders with Georgia O'Keefe.

A fast friendship with the writer Edward Abbey, fueled his passion and intensity for the desert southwest, and in his paintings he seeks to reveal the land's mythic essence. He is "less concerned with the outward appearances of nature than with its underlying, unseen reality."