Photo: Carol M. Highsmith Archive, US Library of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division. Photographed in April 2013 as part of an assignment
for the General Services Administration.
United States Courthouse,
Albuquerque, New Mexico: The mural
The Rebellion of 1680 by Loren
Mozley, depicting the
Pueblo Revolt. At
the elevator on the first floor.
References
- First floor WPA mural at
Lobby elevator, U.S. Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US Library
of Congress website, accessed 12 July 2019. Rights Advisory: No known
restrictions on publication.
- Loren
Mozley, texaspaintings.com, accessed 12 July 2019:
"Loren Norman Mozley (1905-1989) was born on October 2, 1905. He moved
with his family in 1906 to New Mexico. He was introduced to oil painting by
one of his father's Navajo patients and began to paint at age eleven. In
1926 he moved to Taos. For the next two years he painted and exhibited his
work at the Harwood Gallery, and befriended artists Andrew Dasburg, Dorothy
Brett, John Ward Lockwood, Kenneth Adams, and John Marin, among others. From
1929 to 1931 Mozley studied at the Colarossi and Chaumière academies in
Paris, copied paintings at the Louvre, and traveled in Holland, Italy, and
southern France. He returned to America penniless in 1931 and spent the next
four years in New York City, working as an engraver for part of the time and
painting when he could. During this time he befriended Diego Rivera, Frida
Kahlo, and Georgia O'Keeffe ... He received WPA commissions to paint murals
for the Federal Building in Albuquerque ...
Loren Mozley painted scenes from the American Southwest, Mexico, South
America, and Spain in a methodical, geometric style, using a palette
dominated by dusky purples and maroons, brightened with accents of gold,
green, olive, and blue. Oil paints were his primary medium ..."
- Federal
Building and United States Courthouse (Albuquerque, New Mexico),
Wikipedia, accessed 12 July 2019.