About R C Gorman

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Rudolph Carl Gorman
  • Biography

    Courtesy of Jina Brenneman, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico:

    "I've always felt successful. Even when I wasn't making any money, I just knew it was all there. I always believed in myself. I knew I had talent and there was just no doubt about it. I just didn't give up."

    - R.C. Gorman

    Photographs of Taos' Ledoux Street taken by Mildred Tolbert in 1968 show an exotic, charming, untamed, third-world, block-long, dirt path. The beginning of the street was lined exclusively with private residences with the exception of one gallery, The Navajo Gallery. Its owner was Taos legend R.C. Gorman.

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