Photo: 13 November 2018
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Pop Chalee; Photo: [3]
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Old Albuquerque Municipal Airport lobby: Taos
Horsetail Dancer fresco by
Pop Chalee[1,2,3,4] (Merina Lujan Hopkins, 1906-1993), 1945. She was
commissioned not by the WPA but by Howard Hughes and Jack Frye (president of
TWA) to create three works for the airport; she reportedly charmed them into
allowing her to paint 12 murals instead (some of her frescoes were painted
over in later renovations)[2].
References
- Pop Chalee,
Wikipedia, accessed 27 November 2018.
- The
enchanted forests of Blue Flower: Artist Pop Challee, Santa Fe New
Mexican website, accessed 27 November 2018.
- Preserving
Pop Chalee, Albuquerque Journal, 16 June 2017.
- Pop
Chalee, Public Art Archive, accessed 27 November 2018.
- New Deal Art in
New Mexico, Collector's Guide website, accessed 27 November 2018:
Includes Pop Chalee among well-known New Mexico artists "involved in the
New Deal Program".