Santa Fe and New Mexico paintings by Topher Straus
Santa Fe and New Mexico
For collectors in Santa Fe and across New Mexico, national park artist Topher Straus paints the state’s two national parks: the white gypsum dunes of White Sands and the vast caverns of Carlsbad.
“White Sands felt like walking on moonlight. I painted this to capture its glowing stillness and the surreal softness of sun on gypsum.”
TOPHER STRAUS, ON WHITE SANDS NATIONAL PARK
The New Mexico paintings
Two paintings of New Mexico’s national parks.
Where each painting stands
Every painting begins with a real place.
White Sands
The gypsum dunes near Alamogordo in White Sands National Park.
Carlsbad Caverns
The caverns and their formations beneath the Chihuahuan Desert in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
About White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns
White Sands holds the largest gypsum dunefield on Earth, about 275 square miles of dunes so white they stay cool underfoot in summer; it became a national park in 2019. Carlsbad Caverns, in the Guadalupe Mountains to the east, is known for the Big Room, one of the largest cave chambers in North America, and for the bats that spiral out of its mouth on summer evenings.
See the work
A private viewing
Topher arranges private viewings for collectors, at his studio in Golden, Colorado or by appointment.
Arrange a private viewingSizes, editions and how each painting is made: collecting a Topher Straus painting.
Questions collectors ask
Which painting feels most like New Mexico?
White Sands National Park for the light on the dunes; Carlsbad Caverns National Park for the world underground.
Can I see the work in Santa Fe?
Topher arranges private viewings by appointment and can send a scaled preview for a wall in Santa Fe or anywhere in New Mexico.
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