Edward Arcenio Chavez

Edward Arcenio Chavez was born in Wagonmound, NM, in 1917. Muralist, genre and landscape painter, illustrator, sculptor, lithographer and jeweler, Edward Chavez was descended from the early-day Spanish settlers in the present-day American Southwest. He was born into a sheep ranching family of twelve in Ocaté near Wagonmound in northeastern New Mexico. When he was five years old an unusually hard winter wiped out all of the family's livestock and assets, necessitating relocation to Red Lion in northeastern Colorado, where the family earned a meager livelihood working in the local sugar beet fields. Chavez later recalled: "From childhood I knew only poverty and deprivation, and hard struggle and laboring to eke out a subsistence by one's own hands out of a rebelling earth and certainly a resisting society."

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