"Arizona Desert Scene" [SOLD]

Rollins traveled constantly throughout the Southwest. He lived among the Hopi, Crow, and Blackfeet tribes and was one of the first painters to be admitted to their ceremonies.

By 1893, he was in Taos, then one of only four Anglo artists there, and he later returned where he had a studio near his close friend, E.I. Couse. In 1900, he spent a year in Arizona painting among the Hopi Indians and later the Navajo and Zuni tribes. The next year he began a commission for two historical paintings of the Lewis and Clark Exposition.

In 1910 he moved to the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena and the following year built a studio in San Gabriel where he lived until his move to Santa Fe, NM in 1917. He settled in Santa Fe and earned a prestigious reputation as a teacher of art at the Palace of the Governors. He served as first president of the Santa Fe Art Club. His works were among the earliest to be shown at the new Museum of New Mexico, and his work appeared in about twenty-five exhibitions in Santa Fe between 1916 and 1977. He also did murals for the Museum as well as the post office and Bishops Lodge.

The Santa Fe Railroad built a studio for him on the rim of the Grand Canyon and he became known as