Fremont Ellis 1897–1985

“L ight changes so quickly it’s impossible to capture it by setting one’s easel up and painting directly from life. I strive to catch the mood of a certain place on a certain day by using my mind’s eye for the vision and my feelings for the mood after I am back in the studio.” As quoted by Ina Sizer Cassidy in “Art and Artists of New Mexico,” New Mexico Magazine

“In the final analysis, what gives to a work of art its distinction, are the ‘intangibles,’ the undefinable, the unexplainable qualities, that can only be sensed or felt.” As quoted in Works and Words of Santa Fe Artists