Chapel of Loretto

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Fremont Ellis fell in love with the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico the minute he laid eyes upon it. He first traveled to the city in 1921 and later said that “it was the most beautiful place I’d ever seen.” Once in Santa Fe, Ellis formed the painting group La Cinco Pintores along with Jozef Bakos, Walter Mruk, Willard Nash and Wil Shuster, and Ellis was the youngest of the group. In Santa Fe, Ellis was moved by the landscape and unique pueblo architecture and there is nothing more iconic Santa Fe than the Loretto Chapel, located just steps away from the historic plaza on Old Santa Fe Trail. The Loretto Chapel was built in 1873 and it is the home of Santa Fe’s most famous relic, the Miraculous Staircase, built of wood with no glue, nails or other hardware. It is only fitting that Santa Fe’s most famous and well-respected artist would paint Santa Fe’s most famous and well-known architectural structure, The Loretto Chapel. This is the only known Ellis painting of the Loretto Chapel that has ever come to auction.

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