He couldn't say "I love you" until the end. And now he was gone.
Before, there was the intense love affair mixed with deep
disappointments and hurts that started in the 1920s and developed
over the years when the two were artists and architects in Santa Fe
and Taos. Afterwards, she went on on to reach new heights as she
became a famous builder of adobe houses and a painter of all that
surrounded her. But his influence remained and it permeates her
writing as firmly as the mind that dominated her before his death.
Yet this seems to stimulate her probing deeper into her own self
and she transports the reader to the art colonies, the blue skies
and clean, cool air of northern New Mexico over several decades. Is
this a love story? Perhaps not. More likely this is a study in the
transforming of attitudes, shaping the reader's thought to
appreciate everything about everyday life, encouraging joy in every
emotion, searching for one's own consciousness.
Myrtle Stedman was known as an "Artist in Adobe," designing,
building, and remodeling adobe homes under a contractor's license.
She was also a well-know artist whose academic training started in
1927 when she was a student in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts
school. Her English born husband, Wilfred Stedman, whose background
was in architecture as well as in painting and illustrating was
recognized as one of the most outstanding artists of the American
Southwest. Adobe architecture in New Mexico was one of Wilfred's
favorite topics of conversation and Myrtle was instilled with the
love of adobes from the moment they were married. After his death
in 1950, Myrtle went on to become one of the foremost authorities
on adobe construction. Her book, Adobe Architecture, Adobe
Remodeling and Fireplaces, Rural Architecture, Ongoing Life, and Of
One Mind are all published by Sunstone Press.
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