"Going Home" c. 1920s, Etching.

Edition: Not stated. Signed in pencil, Will Shuster, lower right, and in the plate, lower left; titled on reverse in pencil, lower left. 

Image: 3 x 2 inches (76 x 51 mm). Sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 inches (187 x 127 mm).

Excellent condition. Good margins. A strong and very deeply printed impression on cream wove paper. An interesting and appealing image of a man on horseback riding toward a small adobe. Santa Fe artist, Will Shuster's, small etchings, originally done to sell to the early Southwestern tourist market (bread and butter money) are now highly collected and appreciated as the little jewels that they are.  

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Edition: Not stated. Signed in pencil, Will Shuster, and in the plate, lower right; titled, in the plate, upper right. Dated in the plate, lower right, just above the pencil signature.

Image: 1 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches (48 x 73 mm). Sheet: 5 15/16 x 4 3/4 inches (151 x 121 mm).

Excellent condition. Good margins. Printed on light brown wove paper. An image of the front of San Francisco de Asis church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.

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Edition: Not stated - but rare.

Cover art by Will Shuster, signed in the plate, Shus, lower right. Dated, 1947, on the inside front cover. Printed by Quality Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Music by Billy Palou. English lyrics by Avalee Turner. Spanish lyrics by Johnny Valdes.

Bi-fold Sheet (closed): 12 1/18 x 9 inches (282 x 228 mm).

For the person who absolutely, positively, has to have everything that Will Shuster ever did. Here it is. The  sheet music for the Santa Fe Fiesta, with a cover design by the creator of Zozobra, Will Shuster. The distribution of this item was probably very small with very few probably surviving. In excellent condition and appears to have been in flat storage since its printing.

The words begin:

In Santa Fe we have La Fies-ta
'tis the time for sing-ing dance and play
On this day we do not take la sies-ta
while Zo-zo-bra burns gloom a-way

Steel guitars are soft-ly strum-ming mu-sic
se-no-ri-ta come a-long with me
lu-mi-na-rias all are shinning bright-ly
at the bai-le fan-cy cos-tumes you will see ....

From there the lyrics continue.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Billy Palou and his orchestra were a commonly heard and seen band in and around Santa Fe. They appear to have been something of a house band for La Fonda.

That Old Man Gloom - Zozobra - he's just gotta go!

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