KENNETH CHAPMAN’S SANTA FE [SOLD]

KENNETH CHAPMAN'S SANTA FE

Artists and Archaeologists, 1907-1931

The Memoirs of Kenneth Chapman

Edited, annotated and introduced by Marit K. Munson

Publisher: School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe

Softcover, first edition, 2007.  189 pages illustrated with vintage photographs

Contents

1. Artists and Archaeologists

2. Chapman's Early Years

3. Fieldwork, 1900-1909

4. Museum of New Mexico, 1909-1929

5. Indian Arts

6. Chapman and Hewett

7. Chapman, Rockefeller, and the Laboratory of Anthropology

8. The Lab and the University

9. Between Art and Archeology: Chapman's Legacy

"After he arrived in New Mexico in 1899, Kenneth Milton Chapman took on all manner of projects: mapping archaeological ruins, judging Pueblo pottery, teaching art, and studying ancient and modern Indian design.  He became an 'art archaeologist,' a self-made expert riding the line between disciplines.  When he moved to Santa Fe in 1909, he found himself in the midst of the city's identity crisis.  Eventually he played a part in virtually all of the central institutions and critical events that shaped Santa Fe, but his hard work behind the scenes was obscured by the dazzle of self-promoters like Edgar Lee Hewett, and his studies of Indian art and design were overshadowed by the ground-breaking research of archaeologists and the artistic accomplishments of well-known Pueblo potters.  Now, this carefully edited and annotated edition of Chapman's memoirs reveals his side of the story, an intimate insider's portrait of the personalities and events that shaped Santa Fe."