William Acheff ( New Mexico / California / Alaska, b. 1947), "Good Apples", oil on panel

sight: 24 x 20 in., frame: 33 x 27 in.

Provenance: Property from a home in Austin, Texas

Trompe l'oeil oil painter of Indian artifacts, William Acheff was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1947 and has been iving in Taos, New Mexico since 1973. "I paint Indian objects," he says, "because I relate to them, maybe because I have some Indian blood and because I was close to my grandmother, but that's not the point. I t's the ethnic quality of the artifacts.  There's a purity in them.  Nothing's manufactured by machine. There sits a pot. The whole mood of what went into making that pot is a story, and that's what I want to capture." (source: Contemporary Western Artists, by Peggy and Harold Samuels)