Welcome to Our Online Gallery and Store
"Arthur loved the Old Book: the stories; the morality; the squabbles; they all resonated in him. He struggled with his own condition. He argued with God and everybody else who’d care to engage.
"Bear in mind that Arthur loved these Bible stories for their timeless emotional messages and intellectual challenges."
- Judith M. Sussman
"Besides painting the Bible, I always went out into the remote areas
(of New Mexico) and did landscapes. Sooner or later it became almost impossible, for me, to do a landscape without a person in it. I like to relate humanity to what I do. Who was the most obvious person to put in? Well, a Native American, somebody with whom the landscape had not only an environmental meaning but a religious meaning. They blended. They worked.
And I was able to express a kind of similarity of mysticism - a spirituality into this character whom I based on the readings I’ve done. Whose name is Blue Feather. He is one of the nomadic tribes. Blue
Feather then became the focus of landscapes, landscape concepts, with a riding figure or a figure at repose on a horse. The more Investigation I did on Indian life, the more I was sure that this was, for me, the southwestern equivalent of my biblical work."
- Arthur Sussman (during
an interview for Colores on KMNE-TV)
The artwork on this site is separated into three categories: Biblical (Old and New Testament paintings), Blue Feather (paintings with Native-American themes inspired by Arthur's love of New Mexico) and Other works. The Original Artwork and Giclée pages cover all three categories with links at the top of each page to quickly jump to any of the categories.
Please enjoy this slideshow featuring many of the
pieces on this site:
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