| Dan Appenzeller is a musician, and also the co-director of the Four Corners Folk Festival, and he recently won a battle with squamous cell carcinoma. He finished simultaneous chemotherapy and radiation treatments in January 2004, but residual side effects from the aggressive cancer treatment continued to affect him for months afterward. Now on the mend, Dan has recently started touring with his band The Hot Biscuits around the region and is busy planning the 2005 Festival, to be held on Reservoir Hill over Labor Day weekend.
Wayne Justus is a cowboy. But he’s also an award winning painter of realistic contemporary American cowboy art. Working primarily in opaque watercolor and oil, Justus’ work has been featured on the covers of New Mexico Stockman, Colorado Stockman, Horse and Rider and Western Horseman. Two years ago, Justus was featured in Art of the West.
Justus recently surprised Appenzeller by donating an original oil painting, “El Rancho de las Golandrinas,” to help defray the cost of Dan’s medical treatments, which despite having health insurance, remain in the tens of thousands of dollars. Taminah Gallery owner Karen Cox and her staff are working diligently to sell the painting. The gallery will take no proceeds.
“El Rancho de las Golandrinas,” is a painting of a cowboy herding longhorn onto the dusty rancho along the famous Camino Real near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The painting is 24” x 36” in a barn wood frame and retails for $6,500. The painting may be viewed at Taminah Gallery on Pagosa Street in Pagosa Springs. |