Santa Fe 1974 Calendar

Santa Fe continued to issue calendars featuring its western art for more than two decades after Amtrak took over passenger service. This one features a painting of a Navajo family, two of whom break the “fourth wall” by looking directly at the viewer. The little girl’s face seems particularly Anglicized, no doubt to make the painting more appealing to the general public.

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The painter is E. (for Ernest) Martin Hennings, who was born in New Jersey in 1886 but whose family moved to Chicago in 1888. Like so many of Santa Fe’s painters, he studied at the Art Institute, graduating in 1904. He made his first visit to New Mexico in 1917 and moved there full time in 1920. In addition to fine art, he painted advertisements for the Santa Fe.


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