Manitou Galleries

Great Gallery in Santa Fe that manages to keep consistent, high quality art and jewelry. The sales folk are very nice, and very knowledgeable about their artists. Check out the Jim Eppler Bronze Ravens, a favorite of mine!

This is the most beautiful gallery I have ever been to. If you are in Santa Fe stop by and see the stunning art featured in the gallery, I especially love the work of Miguel Martinez!

Manitou is a must-​see Santa Fe gallery. My favorite artist there is Ethelinda – her giant galloping horses are stunning. I love the Eppler raven sculptures also. The staff is very knowledgeable and friendly!

Wow. Wow. Wow.
If you go see any gallery in Santa Fe… check out William Siegal Gallery and this place. That’s it.
The paintings here were truly UNBELIEVABLE. I couldn’t stop staring at them thinking that some of them just HAD to be photographs they were so realistic and amazing. It’s like the light was shining out from behind each of these paintings. My favorite was Roger Hayden Johnson. Not only was the light shining out of his paintings… it appeared as though there was a window behind me and the sun was shining on the painting. Except when you’d turn around you wouldn’t see a window or the sun. Just amazing. I could have spent hours here. I especially loved the Island summer painting and the white canoe. Too bad they were all so pricey ($ 1750 ish).
Also, Kim Beesley just floored me. He makes these wooden bowls made out of all sorts of tiny little pieces of wood and turquoise and just cuts them PERFECT as he builds the vases up from the bottom. I don’t know how he does it. You look on the inside and the outside and it’s like all the pieces are magically glued together and curved just perfectly. Does he put them together and them mold them? No… does it as he goes. I’m baffled. He apparently has a background in aerospace engineering and the spaces between his pieces of wood are less than a human hair (I got that little piece of information from someone who worked in the gallery).
Also, take your cell phone and dial into the main phone number, press the artist’s name and hear the artist him/​herself talk to you about how they became an artist, what inspired them, the journey of their lives and their art (that you are looking at). Really freaking cool. They told me that they were the first in the country to do something like this. Well, I think everyone else should follow suit!

These guys have one of the most outstanding collection of incredible artists of all the galleries we visited. There are crazy detailed and colorful paintings, along with sculptures that are incredibly detailed. Kim wiggins and Roger Hayden Johsnon were some of my favorites of this gallery’s current showings. However, that’s not what truly made me love this place. (although that’s certainly enough) No, they are also apparently the first gallery in the country to provide cellphone audio tours of most of their artists. Of all the galleries we visited in our trip to Santa Fe, this is the one I’d be most disappointed for having missed, had we missed it.

To stand out from the crowd in the Santa Fe art market takes something special, and Manitou achieves the impossible. An excellent collection including notably fine pieces by Camille Engel and Teresa Elliott, and impeccable service combine to make a very satisfying art-​splurge experience. Highly recommended.