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New Mexico Highlands Works

Location

Sacramento Mountains, Cloudcroft, White Sands National Park, Tularosa Basin, and surrounding desert woodlands.

Plein Air of New Mexico

2011-2022

High-country paintings from the Sacramento Mountains, Tularosa Basin, and surrounding desert woodlands.
Painted primarily after her move to La Luz, these works are among her most spiritually resonant. Rosalie’s lifelong fascination with light and solitude deepened in the rugged elevations of Southern New Mexico.
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Cloudcroft, NM. Rosalie Heacock Thompson, 2001. watercolor on paper.

Plein Air watercolor of La Luz Canyon, New Mexico

Watercolor E. Patriarch (2017) by Rosalie Heacock Thompson, plein air eucalyptus near La Luz, New Mexico.

Oil painting White Sands Nocturne (2016) by Rosalie Heacock Thompson, plein air desert landscape of White Sands National Park, New Mexico.

Watercolor painting Sleeping Lady Vista (2005) by Rosalie Heacock Thompson, panoramic view of Sleeping Lady Hills near Alamogordo and La Luz, New Mexico, overlooking Tularosa Basin and White Sands, 12 x 33 in.

Oil painting Storm Over Ghost Ranch (2005) by Rosalie Heacock Thompson, abstract New Mexico landscape at Ghost Ranch, retreat of Georgia O’Keeffe.

Oil painting Tularosa Casa by Rosalie Heacock Thompson, 2007, adobe house in Tularosa, New Mexico with turquoise trim, trees, foliage, and blue sky; red ribbon winner Otero County Fair.

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