Douglas Johnson's tiny, exquisite gouache paintings depict the heaven and earth of northern New Mexico, its past and present, flower and bird, man and woman, costume and skin. With jewel-like color and the craft of an Indian miniaturist, he draws us down, into and through the many facets of his vision of this beautiful and complicated region.While much of Johnson's art is inspired by the past - by the glorious architecture of Chaco Canyon, the nature-rooted ceremonials of the Anasazi and their connections with the great Aztec and Mayan cultures of the south - its subject is really the present, his daily response to life in and around his home near Coyote, a village west of Abiquiu.Nature, the artist maintains, has been his primary teacher. 'I've learned by examining light and shadow,' he said, 'weather, color, flowers, the birds, it's all out there.'

Douglas Johnson Resume

Born: 1946, Portland, Oregon

Education: self-taught

Home: Coyote, New Mexico

Media: Gouache paintings, pottery.

Selected Exhibitions and Awards:

2009 60's Survivor, solo show of paintings and prints, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM.

2007 Curators Choice, group show, Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, Ghost Ranch, NM

2007 “Santa Fe Indian Market, Classification Manager, Paintings and Graphics Division, Judging, Traditional Pottery Divition

2006 “ Matteucci Masters, group show, Matteucci Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2005 “Indian Market Exhibition with Michael Naranjo and Doug Hyde”, Nedra Matteucci Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2004 “Classics”, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2003 “Indian Market Exhibition with Michael Naranjo and Doug Hyde”, Nedra Matteucci Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2002 “Small Works: an Invitational Exhibition”, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

“Stations of the Cross” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

“From Realism to Abstraction: Art in New Mexico, 1917-2002,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2001 “Historical Windows”, Nedra Matteucci Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2000 Holiday Exhibition, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

“On and Off the Highroad to Taos”, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

1998 “Postcards from Taos”, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

“A Painter’s Odyssey”, book signing, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1996 Miniature Show, Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque, NM

1996 “Flowers, Pots and Trains”, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

1995 “Return to Taos”, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

“Enduring Inspiration”, invitational landscape show curated by Robert Ewing, Cline Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“New Mexico Clayworkers”, Governor's Gallery, NM State Capitol, Santa Fe

“Douglas Johnson”, Bruce Kapson Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1994 “Southwest Traditions, Modern Icons”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1993 “Evolution of a Style: 35 Year Retrospective”, Governor's Gallery, NM State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM

“Magnificent Subject”, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

1992 “New Acquisitions”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

“Painting the Mythical”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe

“Church Show”, Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe

1991 “Church Show”, Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe

“Of Myth and Dream”, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“Art in Embassies”, Beijing, China

1990 “Birds of Magic” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1989 “Contemporary Miniatures”, J.N. Bartfield Gallery, New York, NY

“Shrine Show”, Cloud Cliff Bakery, Santa Fe, NM

1988 “Inner Sanctums”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“Paperworks II”, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX

1987 “Erotica”, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, NM

1986 “Recent Works”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1985 Gump's Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco, CA

“Journey to the East”, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

1984 “Altiplanos”, Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“Arts New Mexico”, Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe, NM

“Arts New Mexico”, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

1983 “New Works”, Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“Pueblo Architecture”, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM

“Pueblo Architecture”, Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA

“Aztlán, Egypt, Perú”, Return Gallery, Taos, NM

“The Corporation Collects”, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI

1982 “Images of Ranchos Church”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

Santa Fe Festival of the Arts," Sweeney Center, Santa Fe, NM

“Douglas Johnson”, Kaffie Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX

“Two Man Show”, Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“Santa Fe-Taos Group Show”, Sheldon Memorial Art Center, Lincoln, Nebraska

“Douglas Johnson”, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI

1980 “John Hernandez and Douglas Johnson”, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

“Armory Festival Show”, Santa Fe, NM

1979 “John Hernández and Douglas Johnson”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

“Margaret Jamison Presents”, Sweeney Center, Santa Fe, NM

“Eight New Mexico Artists and One Arizona Sculptor”, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

“Works on Paper”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.

1978 “Two Man Show”, Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe.

“Festival Santa Fe 1978”, United Bank of Denver, Denver, CO

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Auction, Colorado

Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

“Santa Fe Selects”, Arts Festival, Santa Fe, NM

“The Indian: Looking In, Looking Out”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1977 “The Armory Show," Santa Fe, NM

“One Man Show”, The Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

“Recent Acquisitions”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

“Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1976 “Southwest Biennial”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

“Visions and Other Realities”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1975 “One Man Show”, The Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

1974 “New Mexico Watercolor Exhibition”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1973 “New Mexico Biennial”, second prize, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1972 “Landscapes of the Mind”, The Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

1971 “New Mexico Biennial”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

“Eight from Santa Fe”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1970 “Cassady Collection”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1968 First Exhibition, Bruno's Book Shop, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections:

Harwood Museum, Taos, NM

Capitol Rotunda, New Mexico State Capital, Santa Fe, NM

American National Insurance Company, Galveston, TX

Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Mel Pfaelzer Collection of Prints, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

General Steel Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri

Farb Investments, Houston, TX

Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, NM

Private Collections:

Tom Catron III, Santa Fe, NM

Murdock & Robin Finlayson, Santa Fe

Peter Goodwin, Santa Fe, NM

John Pen La Farge, Santa Fe, NM

Earl & Deborah Potter, Santa Fe, NM

Dan Prall, Santa Fe, NM

Katherine Kagel, Santa Fe, NM

Joseph I. Aragón, Coyote, NM

John Hall, Dallas, TX

Steve & Joni Parks, Taos, NM

William & Nancy Zechendorf, New York, NY

Nedra Matteucci, Santa Fe, NM

Gladys Heldman, Santa Fe, NM

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Feldman, Coral Gables, FL

Elliot McDowell, Jr., Santa Fe, NM

Robert Tobin, San Antonio, TX

Charles Kaffie, Corpus Christi, TX

Gerald Peters, Santa Fe, NM

James Van Sant, St. Louis, MO

Doroteo J. Aragón, Jr.

James DeVries, St. Joseph, MI

Robert Redford, Tesuque, NM

Neil Young, Marin County, CA

Dan & Martha Albrecht, Scottsdale, AZ

Dennis Hopper, Los Angeles, CA

Bob & Alice Banner, Beverly Hills, CA

Murray Pepper & Vicki Reynolds, Beverly Hills, CA

Dr. Larry Hootkin, Santa Fe, NM

Charles Simberg, Scottsdale, AZ

Jay Youngdahl, Cambridge, MA

Chris Tilley, Rye, NY

Robert & Margot Linton, West Palm Beach, FL

Natalie Goldberg, New York, NY

Selected Bibliography:

Books:

Book Cover, No Settlement, No Conquest, Richard Flint, University of New Mexico Press, 2008

Book cover: Documents of the Coronado Expedition: 1539 – 1542, by Richard and Shirley Flint, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2005.

Spanish Colonial Churches of New Mexico, a Portfolio, by Douglas Johnson, Obsidian Mountain, Coyote, NM, 2003.

Artists at Home: Cliff Dwelling, New Mexico Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, 2003.

Santa Fe: Houses & Gardens, “Cliff Dwelling”, by Steve Gross, et al; Rizzoli, New York, 2002.

Churches. Judith Dupré. Harper Collins Publishers, 2001, page 83.

Book cover: The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Encounters with the Zuñi Indians, by Barbara Tedlock, UNM Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2001.

Douglas Johnson, A Painter's Odyssey, by Bob Ewing, forward by Stephen Parks, Clear Light Publishing, Santa Fe, 1998.

Book cover: Coffee Lover’s Bible, by Jill Yates, Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 1998.

On and Off the Highroad to Taos, exhibition catalog, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM, 2000.

Birds of Magic, exhibition catalog, introduction by Bob Ewing. Gerald Peters Gallery, 1990.

Book cover: Santa Fe Fantasy, by Elmo Baca, Clear Light Press, Santa Fe, 1994.

Santa Fe Art, by Simone Ellis, Crescent Books, Cavenel, NJ, 1993

Book cover: Sacred Spaces, by Sarah Ann Osmen, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991.

The Craftsman Builder, Boericke and Shapiro, Simon and Schuster, 1977.

Mud, Space and Spirit, by Gray MaCrae McCall, Capra Press, 1977.

Periodicals:

New Mexico Magazine, “Rythms of Life” by Gussie Fauntleroy, September 2005

Río Grande Sun, “Douglas Johnson: Classics” by Robert Ekchert, August 12, 2004

New Mexico Magazine, “Storytellers”, December 2002

Río Grande Sun, “Artist Lives Harmoniously Off the Grid”, by Joe Szarek, August 15, 2002

New Mexican, Pasatiempo, “Douglas Johnson’s Boyhood Dream”, by Craig Smith, August 9-15, 2002

Southwest Art, “Douglas Johnson”, by Gussie Fauntleroy, February 2002

The Oprah Magazine, Book Review of Churches by Judith Dupré, December 2001

Río Grande Sun, “Nedra Matteucci Features Coyote Artist” by Diana Dearen, August 9, 2001

Taos Magazine, “On and Off the High Road to Taos” by Stephen Parks, August 2000

Santa Fe Reporter, “Better than Jam”, Dennis Jarrett, December 2-8, 1999

Albuquerque Journal, “Cave Dwelling Alters Vision” November 1, 1998

Taos News, “A Painter’s Odyssey” by Rick Romancito, October 1, 1998

New Mexican, Pasatiempo, “No Secrets” by Hollis Walker, August, 1998

Albuquerque Journal, “Artist by Nature”, by Mark Hummels, April 4, 1998

Taos Magazine, “Visual Diaries”, by Stephen Parks, Autumn, 1995

Taos News, Tempo, “Return to Taos”, by R. Romancito, October 19, 1995

New Mexico Magazine, “Artists' Homes: Douglas Johnson's Cliff Dwelling”, by Emily Drabanski, April 1994

The Magazine, “The Universe of Douglas Johnson”, August, 1992

Amtrak Magazine, “Magic in a Bird's Eye View”, December-January 1991

Southwest Profile, "Birds of Magic”, May-June 1990

Southwest Art, “Revitalizing Ritual”, June 1987

Chicago Herald Tribune, “Coyote: The Wildest Town in the West”, April 1987

Arts Magazine, November 1986

The Santa Fean, “Douglas Johnson, Painter”, October 1983

Four Winds Magazine, “Artist Profile: Douglas Johnson”, Summer 1992

ARTlines, July 1981

El Palacio, July 1979

The Santa Fean, July 1977, February-March 1974