Rio Grande Medley BERNARD MARKS WROTE ABOUT HIS NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL OIL PAINTING “RIO GRANDE MEDLEY”: “Rio Grande Medley” shows the Rio Grande as it flows approximately 1900 miles from south central Colorado through New Mexico, through Texas,...
Canyon de Chelly Homecoming MARTHA MARKS COMMENTS ON BERNARD MARKS’ UNUSUAL OIL PAINTING “CANYON DE CHELLY HOMECOMING”: In “Canyon de Chelly Homecoming,” one of Bernie’s final oil paintings, he departs in a notable way from his...
Ghost Ranch Landmarks BERNARD MARKS WROTE ABOUT HIS “GHOST RANCH LANDMARKS” OIL PAINTING FROM GEORGIA O’KEEFFE COUNTRY: “Ghost Ranch Landmarks” is the result of many hikes I’ve made around and through Georgia’s...
High Country Color BERNARD MARKS WROTE ABOUT HIS ENORMOUS, STRIKINGLY VERTICAL PAINTING “HIGH COUNTRY COLOR”: “High Country Color” is a large, strongly vertical acrylic painting that I made from my field studies in the Sangre de Cristo...
Flowering Ocotillo BERNARD MARKS WROTE ABOUT HIS STRONGLY VERTICAL OIL PAINTING “FLOWERING OCOTILLO”: A form of cactus, the flowering ocotillo is a common and distinctive desert plant of the southwestern United States. Throughout the winter, its clusters...
Chamisa Time BERNARD MARKS WROTE ABOUT HIS SPECTACULAR, STRONGLY VERTICAL PAINTING “CHAMISA TIME”: “Chamisa Time” stars a bushy plant also called “rabbit bush” that’s common in the arid Southwest. It not an attractive plant...
