JOzef Bakos casually once remarked that "painting is a little like flirting- you never know how it's going to turn out." This seemingly offhanded statement characterized his lifelong love affair with art, nature and beauty. It began in his native Buffalo, New York, and continued for more than half a century in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his adopted city.
In the process Bakos contributed to the formation of one of the most important regional art traditions focused in the southwestern part of the United States. As a professional artist and teacher in Santa Fe- a 300 hundred-year-old town with a...