| LLOYD LOZES GOFF (1908 - 1982)
Like most boys raised in the West, Lloyd Goff's favorite childhood game was "Playing Cowboy" and his earliest drawings depict his heroes in boots and spurs. Even his first formal art training was with the trail-driver cowboy turned cattle painter, Frank Reaugh of Oak Cliff, Texas. In spite of a strict regimen of painting and drawing from nature, "the Reaugh trips," annual sketching and camping jaunts were a delight to the boy artist. "It was on one of these trips when, as the youngest member, I was 'The Kid'" Goff recalls. I was excited by an overnight stay at the famous 'Four Six Ranch,' the 6666, on the Texas Plains. The next day our truck and car caravan crossed into the 'Land of Enchantment' and it was not long until I fell under the spell of this land and loved it. The ardent infatuation lives on more than ever!" Goff enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of the University of New Mexico after five years as a Schnakenberg Scholarship Student at the Art Student's League of New York, studied at the Academie Juliene, Paris, and spent several years as a Fellow at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. At the university, he studied with Kenneth Adams and Raymond Jonson, and later taught as Assistant Professor of Art. During his second year of teaching, Goff was Acting Head of the Art Department. Lloyd Lozes Goff has lived and worked in New York, London and Albuquerque where his studio is a 200-year old adobe ranch house. At home in many climates. Goff approaches landscape with a native's insight, distilling with equal skill atmospheres as divergent as Europe, Africa and the Americas. Far from being prosaic recordings, Goff captures both the spirit and color of many lands. In his personal philosophy concerning his art, Goff says, "I practice a free flow of feeling about a subject. I am trying to produce an atmosphere, a spirit of the theme. I am not reproducing a scene or object, not copying a subject, but rather making a new creation . . . using whatever subject matter as a springboard, not as an end in itself."
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