Callers by Walter Ufer

No bows and arrows, no hunting buffalo on horseback. Walter Ufer saw first-hand that Native Americans in the 1920s weren't the romanticized caricatures from the old Wild West shows. In today's episode we're looking at “Callers” and find out how a city boy from Chicago ended up in Taos, NM and broke all the rules when it came to depicting his friends and neighbors as real people trying to balance the modern world with tradition. SHOW NOTES  “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode Music “Free Guitar Riding Blues” and “Follow the Little Creek” by Loco Lobo. Courtesy of Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/completly-free/free-guitar-riding-blues-f-014 https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/verona/follow-the-little-creek-faster-id-1386 “Clusticus the Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle. Courtesy of the artist https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle Artwork information https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/callers-24394 Artist info https://americanart.si.edu/artist/walter-ufer-4912 https://www.historynet.com/walter-ufer/?f https://cometatomic.com/walter-ufer-a-remarkable-journey-through-art-and-activism/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ufer https://www.illinoisart.org/essays/walter-ufer#_ftn23 Ufer letter https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll1/id/1930 Taos Artists Society “The Taos Society of Artists : Masters & Masterworks” by Amy Scott (Internet Archive) https://archive.org/details/taossocietyofart0000scot Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/callers-ufer/