Near Santa Fe New Mexico

Pedro Joseph de Lemos

This 1921 drawing was done by Lemos on a trip through the Southwest. The subject is a home, an adobe structure near the Tesuque Pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two women stand outside, perhaps admiring the golden glow of the sunset and the attendant pallette of the landscape.

Tesuque was where the Pueblo uprising began on August 10, 1680 during the feast of San Lorenzo. Over 8000 Pueblo warriors drove the Spanish out of New Mexico. The date is still celebrated each year with dances and ceremonies.

Arts & Crafts artist Pedro J. de Lemos was born in Austin, Nevada on May 25, 1882, amd grew up in Oakland, California and began his art studies in the Bay Area. In 1900 he was a pupil of Arthur Matthews at the Mark Hopkins Institute and continued his studies as a student of George Bridgman at the Art Students League in New York and Arthur Wesley Dow at Columbia University Teachers College. Returning to Oakland, he set up his studio overlooking Lake Merritt and began teaching at U.C. Berkeley.

He was a founding member of the California Society of Etchers, and one of his prints won honorable mention at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 for which he was chief organizer of the California print exhibition. He was Professor of Design at Stanford University and was appointed director of the Stanford Museum of Art in 1919.