Cady Wells

He accepted an invitation from artist E Boyd and her husband Eugene Van Cleave to come to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

[4] His exhibitions were sometimes alongside the work of better known artists such as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Adolph Gottlieb, and Jackson Pollock.

While living in Taos, Wells restored an old Spanish home at Jacona, some twenty miles north of Santa Fe, and there gained a reputation as a magnificent host.

He was clever, witty, affectionate, and generous; he anonymously aided numerous individuals during the post-Depression and war years.

He served on the board of directors of Santa Fe's School for Advanced Research and helped found the Jonson Gallery in Albuquerque.

[7] He gave his collection of some 200 santos to the Museum of New Mexico in 1951, with the condition that a separate department be established for Spanish colonial art.