Pansy Stockton – Gallery of Sun Paintings
Following are images of some of the over 5,000 sun paintings Pansy Stockton built in her lifetime. Almost 100 years later, they continue to circulate throughout the world, retaining their color, the thousands of pieces not drifting, primarily hanging in private homes, but also in museums and art galleries. Note that it was important to Pansy to use only the color provided by nature, so there is no paint or ink added, even in her signature.
Pansy’s largest work was commissioned by a couple in Midland, Texas in 1953. “The Great Falls of Yellowstone” was four feet in length and two and a half feet in width. Pansy estimated there were over 50,000 pieces of flora in the Yellowstone Falls sun painting. I have not been able to find it yet.
“Chief Ouray”
“Chipeta,” Chief Ouray’s wife
“Ranchos de Taos”
“Sunrise on Old Walpi”
“Indian Summer Near Taos”
Peace Fire Teepees
“Longs Peak Trail,” 1927
“Mount of the Holy Cross,” Pansy’s favorite for many years
“Indian House Near Taos,” around 1950
“Village of Truchas”
The handwritten words are written by Santa Fe artist, Cady Wells, who gave the piece as a gift in 1946.
“High in the Truchas”
The stamp on the back of the sun paintings was made by Pansy’s friend, the woodcut artist Gustave Baumann
“Little Street in Old Santa Fe”
“Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Hills,”
donated to the New Mexico Museum of Art by Harold and Frances Saueressig in 1965, photo credit New Mexico Museum of Art
“Alpenglow, Lake Mead,” around 1940
“Water Hole”
“Rain Over Puye,” around 1940
“Old Stage Coach Station Santa Fe Trail”
“Moonlight Over Taos”
A rare abstract sun painting:
“The Geyser is a Dancer, Yellowstone National Park”
“Maroon Lake”
Ghosts, another rare abstract by Pansy