Artist and ModelJames Carson Hamner, Artist
That was the sign affixed to his front door. He’d had to seriously restrain himself to avoid adding an e to the word Artist five years ago when he first put up the discrete plaque. That’s the way he felt…like an artiste. Of the four words on that sign, Artist was the one that defined him. Certainly, more than the three names precedent. Those were just legal necessities for signing contracts and paying bills. Ordinary, mundane titles for ordinary, mundane tasks.
James Carson Hamner’s home reinforced that conviction. The front door to the adobe in Albuquerque’s north valley opened directly into his large studio and gallery…his living quarters lay somewhere beyond. His own work hung on the whitewashed studio walls. In one corner near the north-fac
