Myrtle Stedman

Artists in Adobe Myrtle Stedman 1st edition

Here is the account, in storybook form with illustrations by the author, of two artists and how they settled in northern New Mexico to try their skill at designing and building adobe houses. The author finished the drawings in this book in 1937 when the images were fresh in her mind. Together with the story, they give an insight into what many artists were doing in the twenties and thirties, not only as an aftermath of the depression but as a lifestyle, a way of living creatively and artistically in an atmosphere more conducive than city life. While the Stedmans' art thrived in Houston, Texas during the seven years before the depression, their reputations as artists grew to the point that they felt they could go anywhere and do anything. Myrtle Stedman describes the adventure of moving to northern New Mexico where their skills and their joy in art and architecture rose to unexpected heights in spite of hard times in the economy and in their private life.