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MILLIE DURGAN, 2018
The monumental art installation, comprising 75
winged buffalo sculptures, tells the
centuries-long story of enslaved Native American
children. Inspired by his own family history,
Santa Fe artist Armond Lara dreamed up the winged
buffalo as a new symbol of Native survival and
resilience
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The winged blue buffalo reference a dark chapter
of Laras family history his grandmother, who
was Navajo, was kidnapped as a child and forced
into servitude by a Mexican family. This was a
common story in the region now known as the
Western United States. Across three centuries of
Spanish, Mexican and American rule, thousands to
millions of Native children were enslaved as
household servants or fieldhands 
JUANITA SANCHEZ
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The Pueblo people called these abducted youths
lost bluebirds, a symbol that Lara combined
with the buffalo into a new icon of Indigenous
survival  Buffalo are masters of survival,
says Armond Lara. Theyre still around today
even though we tried our best to kill them all
off. 
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JULIANA MARTIN APACHE -AGE 12 - YEAR PURCHASED
1855 2018
The names, tribes, ages, and years purchased came
from a list of Colorado Indian captives as
reported by Lafayette Head, Indian Agent for
Southern Colorado, in 1865, in a report prepared
for the Colorado Territorial Governor John Evans
PAULA VALDES PAH-UTE - AGE 11- YEAR PURCHASED
1858,  2018
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JUANITA SANCHEZ
MILLIE DURGAN, 2018
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Artist Armond Lara was born in 1939 in Denver,
Colorado and raised in Walsenburg, a coal mining
town in southeastern Colorado. His mother was of
Navajo descent and his father was Mexican. My
grandmother didnt talk much, but if she did
talk, you listened, says Lara. Hes known the
story of his grandmothers abduction for as long
as he can remember, but it wasnt until recently
that he learned how common the practice was. My
sister was doing genealogy research on the
family, and she found a list of all the Native
American kids who had been adopted by Mexican
families in the Four Corners area, says Lara.
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He learned about the kidnapping and enslavement
of an enormous number of Native American children
over several centuriesfrom the 1600s when the
Spanish arrived, through the period of Mexican
Independence, until the late 1800s under the
government of the United States.  A number of
Laras close friends revealed that they too had
ancestors who were taken. For Lara, this growing
web of stories reminded him of his grandmothers
resilience, which has been an enduring source of
inspiration
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He dreamed up an art installation and
storytelling project that might communicate this
ethos, and inspire people to learn more about
their heritage. A series of five winged blue
buffalo marionettes that Lara carved from wood
over a number of years became central conceptual
elements
ALLEN WAH, 2018
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With the help of his frequent collaborator Joseph
Riggs, an artist and retired attorney who lives
in Santa Fe, Lara pitched the idea to Form
Concept
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Armond Lara (American, 1939) Form Concept
Gallery Flying blue buffalo
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JUANITA SANCHEZ
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The gallery commissioned a digital model and
several mock-ups of the buffalo from Albuquerque
based 3D Proven Systems, while Lara and Riggs
started gathering stories for the project. Each
of the 70 buffalo sculptures will represent the
story of one Lost Bluebird, with oral and
written accounts of their fight for survival
Digital rendering of the art installation in Form
Concept's atrium
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Armond Lara (American, 1939) Flying Blue Buffalo
Project Digital rendering of 3D printed buffalo
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Armond Lara (American, 1939) Oil
Painting with Beads
Screen with Beads Healing way
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Blue rothko
Transformation Series
Armond Lara (American, 1939)
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Armond Lara (American, 1939) Blue/Green (Tiempo
Grava V)
Armond Lara (Tiempo Grava IV
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Armond Lara (American, 1939) Transformation
Series
Armond Lara Ramona Lisa
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Armond Lara (American, 1939) Pastel Drawing
Diptych
Armond Lara Changing Woman with Wind and Water
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John Zurier (American, 1956) Winter (For Ragna)
(2017)
John Zurier April
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John Zurier Echo
John Zurier (American, 1956)
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John Zurier North from Here
John Zurier (American, 1956) Cache II
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William Merritt Chase (American,1849 - 1916)
Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler
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Theodore Earl Butler (American, 1861-1936) Spring
blossoms
Lili reading
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Theodore Earl Butler (American, 1861-1936)
Sailboats on the Water Lili Butler
Reading at the Butler House, Giverny, 1908
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Theodore Earl Butler (American, 1861-1936) Le
Bain, Maison Baptiste, Giverny
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Theodore Earl Butler (American, 1861-1936)
Sailboats
Fishing boat at
Yport
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Theodore Earl Butler (American, 1861-1936) Plum
tree in artists garden
Theodore Earl Butler - Interior after dinner, 1911
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Theodore Earl Butler (American, 1861-1936)
Swan, Central park
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Theodore Earl Butler (American, 1861-1936)
Fireworks, Vernon Bridge
Place du Rome at night
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A ceramic bull by sculptor Christy Keeney from
Donegal, Ireland
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Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966) Portrait no102 2017
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Ángeles Agrela - Peso del Adorno
Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966) Portrait no81
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Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966) Portrait no73 2015
Ángeles Agrela Esther y pensamientos, 2016
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Ángeles Agrela Portrait no41 2015
Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966) Portrait no103
2018
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Ángeles Agrela Musa pensativa 2017
Ángeles Agrela Portrait no44 2014
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Ángeles Agrela Mar con cabeza de amazona 2017
Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966)
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Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966) Portrait no55 2014
Ángeles Agrela Portrait no62 2015
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Ángeles Agrela Portrait no94 2016
Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966) Portrait no93
2016
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Ángeles Agrela Escultura de Pergamo 2017
Ángeles Agrela (Spanish, 1966) Cleopatra 2017
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Ángeles Agrela Daniela y Andrea en el sofa
amarillo, 2019
Ángeles Agrela Miriam y Lucia 2016
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This sculpture by Anish Kapoor (Bombay, India
1954) consists of seventy-three reflective
spheres in stainless steel, positioned on three
uprights. The piece recalls the ephemeral nature
of our world, in the way in which each sphere
reflects not only its neighbours but also blends
into the landscape. It is displayed at the rear
of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Anish Kapoor Tall Tree The Eye, 2009
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Anish Kapoor (India, 1954) Sky mirror blue
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Anish Kapoor (India, 1954) Sky mirror blue
Anish Kapoor born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and
lives and works in London
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Anish Kapoor (India, 1954) Sky mirror Versailles
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Anish Kapoor (India, 1954) Cloud Gate (2004) in
Millennium Park, Chicago
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Anish Kapoor (India, 1954) Cloud Gate (2004)
Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded
together, its highly polished exterior has no
visible seams. It measures 33 by 66 by 42 feet
(10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 100 tons. On the
underside is the "omphalos" (Greek for "navel"),
a concave chamber that warps and multiplies
reflections
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