Bernadette Vigil (born 1955) is an American artist and illustrator whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and abroad.
The farming symbolism also includes a female and male farmer, the latter is holding a stalk of corn, an essential food crop of the American Southwest.
[14] According to a publication of the City of Santa Fe, the fresco depicts "symbols of friendship, the struggle for good and evil...and the healing power of humans.
The destruction occurred without the approval or knowledge of the artist, the Santa Fe Arts Commission, nor of the Historic Districts Review Board.
[1] Inspired and similar to Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, Vigil's Angélico Sonido use of color differs from her other angelic themes in her artwork.
Bernadette Vigil's depiction of angels emphasizes the role a heavenly being plays, to protect, guide, and look over people even though they are not with them physically.
[1] This wet-fresco mural of a Northern New Mexico scene, framed by two ears of blue corn depicts the local landscape, sun, moon, seeds blowing in the sky, and freshly picked vegetables laid before the viewer.
[15] Vigil created the cover art for Bless Me, Ultima, a coming-of-age novel written by Rudolfo Anaya, originally published in 1972.
[18] The Roswell Museum published an exhibition catalog, Bernadette Vigil: The Spirit's Inner Journey, in conjunction with her one-person show in 1997.