Honored as the official artist for the cover of The Santa Fe Opera's 2010 Season Program and its pair of Season Posters, John Fincher has for more than 40 years created art that celebrates what the artist terms modestly "the trappings of the American West." These "trappings" encapsulate references that are both familiar and totemic of the Great American Frontier and its mythic role as a reservoir of pride, strength, individualism and renewal.

Distinguished by a singular blend of sensuality and authentic realism, his art is intended to explore diverse art historical and personal references to offer new understandings of America's natural and cultural landscapes. Exercising an economy of means, his work is focused on st...