New Mexico Archives - John Stermer

Celebrating John Stermer’s 100th Birthday!

Happy 100! Today is the one hundredth birthday of the artist John Stermer; our Dad. It is hard to imagine what it might have been like 100 years ago on August 19th, 1920. But, I can imagine him sitting in front of his easel, with dog Frej in his studio. I would like to celebrate […]

Kneeling Nun Mountain – A Favorite Subject

Leave a Comment / Drawings, Musings About John, Paintings / By Peggy Stermer-Cox

Introducing a Favorite Subject I would like to share with you three versions of one of John Stermer’s favorite subjects: the Kneeling Nun Mountain of Grant County, NM. Background. To explain, the artist (Dad) and his family moved to Grant County, NM in December 1959. He lived in this southwest corner of New Mexico for

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