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Jackson Hensley's

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By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the second of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by contemporary 

American landscape painter Jackson Hensley (born 1940 in Portales, New Mexico). 

Jackson Morey Hensley was born to a family that had come early to the Territory. Elias Turner Hensley (1870-1962) was the first doctor in the Territory near what is now Clovis, having moved from Oklahoma Indian Territory around the turn of the century.

 

Jackson’s father, another Elias Turner Hensley (1907-1967), became a prominent jurist, ultimately the Chief Justice of the New Mexico Court of Appeals. His beloved grandmother, Jessie Morey, moved from Wisconsin and lived with the family when Jackson was in high school. 

 

Jackson's enjoyment of art led him to write to Peter Hurd in the summer of 1959. Hurd, a prominent New Mexican artist who eventually was asked to do the official portrait of President Lyndon Johnson, replied to the letter, inviting Jackson to come down to visit him and to bring his work. Later looking at his sketches, Hurd’s wife Henriette suggested Jackson become Peter’s student. Peter demurred, saying he did not have time. Peter wrote to Jackson’s father, suggesting he send Jackson to the National Academy of Design. The letter said: "You should help him go, because he will go. He is driven to art." Several times in that summer and the next, Jackson drove the 140 miles to San Patricio, NM to ride into the hills with Peter Hurd. Tieing up their horses, they would do sketches.

 

Hurd called his wife’s brother, Andrew Wyeth, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, for advice on the best school for the young artist. Wyeth said Leon Kroll was best draftsman at the National Academy of Design. All instructors there were also members of the National Academy of Artists.

The following year, Jackson received a scholarship to become a member of the Salmugundi Club and to reside on the top floor of 47 Fifth Avenue. At age 19 Jackson was inducted into the oldest club for artists in the US. Salmugundi was founded in 1825, modeled after the London Royal Academy. Jackson was invited to submit paintings for several exhibitions at the Salmugundi Club, the National Academy of Design, as well as at the National Art Club. He received prizes in all three venues.

Jackson enjoyed almost daily trips to one or more NYC Museums. He reveled in being able to see works by his favorite draftsmen: Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Velasquez, and Thomas Eakins.

Jackson married Carolyn Brown in August 1961. Numerous National Academicians from the school attended their wedding. 

The couple moved to New Orleans where Carolyn spent her last year earning her degree in education at Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, the coordinate women's college of Tulane University. Their son Michael was born there in 1962.

Carolyn’s degree in hand, they moved back east to a home in Old Long Ridge Village, NY. Soon they bought a house in West Redding, CT. Jackson worked on the old farm house and converted the barn to become his studio. Daughter Janet was born there in 1964.

Paul Juley came to the studio on the Saugatuck River in 1966 to photograph Jackson and his paintings. Those pictures became part of the Peter A. Juley & Son series on American artists, now housed in the Smithsonian.

Growing tired of the increasing urbanization around them in Connecticut, in 1967 Jackson and Carolyn moved back to New Mexico. They found a wreck of an old adobe in Taos next to the Indian lands. The Hensleys restored it and added greatly to the living area. They kept Arabian horses and Salukis within the high walls they built around the compound.

The years flew by in Taos where Jackson kept a gallery and studio some 40 years. Carolyn died in 1989 after two and a half years of dialysis and heart problems.

After Carolyn died, Jackson married Tresa Vorenberg, a goldsmith in Santa Fe. Their daughter Morika Rose was born in 1994, five years after they were married. Four and a half years later, they divorced.

 

In 2000, the Leanin' Tree Museum of Western Art purchased Jackson's epic painting entitled "The Prayer" for their permanent collection. The 72” x 90” work greets visitors to the Boulder, CO museum at the end of the hallway leading to the rooms of the collection. The year 2000 also marked the second annual showing of the exhibition entitled the "American Scene”, held at the Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum. Both exhibitions, curated by Jackson, included major works by a select group of nationally- recognized artists from across the U.S.

In 2012, upon Morika’s graduation from Taos High School, Jackson moved to Illinois to marry another breeder of Arabian horses, Alice Martin. He moved with six of his Davenport Krush horses to live on her family’s Centennial farm. There he continues to paint daily in his studio converted from the draft horse barn built by Alice’s father in 1937. Occasionally noting another one of his paintings has joined a museum or private collection, Jackson is enjoying the different terrain and flora of central Illinois.

           Selected Exhibitions Jackson has participated in: 


American Scene II - Van Vechten-Lineberry, Taos Art Museum
Knickerbocker Artist Exhibit, NYC
Hudson River Artist Exhibit, White Plains, NY
National Academy - various exhibits, NYC
IBM Gallery Special Exhibit, Washington, DC
Salmagundi Club - various exhibits, NYC
Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
National Arts Club Exhibit, NYC
Louisiana State Museum Exhibits
O'meara Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Seth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
New Mexico Governor's Gallery Bicentennial Exhibit
Corcoran Gallery Sales Museum, Washington, DC
Museum of New Mexico New Acquisition Exhibit
Allied Artist Exhibit, NYC
Audubon Artist Exhibit, NYC   
Janet Nessler Gallery, NYC
Art Association Guild Exhibit, New Orleans, LA
Farleigh Dickerson Traveling Exhibit, New Jersey
Margaret Jamison Presents, Santa Fe, NM
Lido Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Jones Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Carl Thompson Gallery, NYC
Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
Stables Art Exhibits, Taos, NM
Santa Fe Fall Arts Shows (Invitational) Santa Fe, NM
Taos Fall Arts Show (Invitational) Taos, NM
Beliem Art Gallery, NYC
Museum of New Mexico Foundation Exhibit, La Jolla, CA
Roughton Gallery, Dallas, TX
National Arts Club Traveling Art Exhibit, International
Southwest Gallery, Denver, CO
Burr Galleries, Denver, CO
Waterside Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
Marcel Brunel Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Linda McAdoo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM -  Scottsdale, AZ
Baker Collector Gallery, Lubbock, TX
Blair Gallery, Santa Fe -  Taos, NM
American Legacy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Jamison Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Laurel Seth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Grand Central Gallery, NYC
Tresa  Vorenberg Goldsmiths & Hensley Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Reflection Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Van-Vechten-Lineberry, Taos Art Museum (The American Scene)
Texas Art Gallery, Dallas, TX

 

                         Mr. Hensley's Art Club Affiliations

Cliff Dwellers (Chicago) 
Savage Club (London)
Art and Letters (Toronto) 
Chelsea Art Club (London)
The Arts Club (Montreal)   
Art Et Amicite (Amsterdam)
The Arts Club (Washington, DC)
Providence Art Club (Providence)
National Arts Club (NYC) 
*Salmagundi Club (NYC)

*The Salmagundi Club Membership was awarded to the artist at the age of 19. 

 Gallery #508B 

           May 11, 2017

Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist

                  Jackson Hensley (Born 1940)

                            ARTIST'S STATEMENT


“Art for me is a personal vision based upon a creative response. It is simply the process of living, reacting and creating through the mind and heart, one's own life experience.”  

 

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