Rio Grande Blanket Tops SFAA Two-Day Sale

 SANTA FE, N.M. — Santa Fe Art Auction celebrated the cultural life and heritage of New Mexico and the American Southwest in its two-day New Mexico Now auction, which was conducted July 23-24. The more than 300 lots of arts and crafts also highlighted early Mexican and Spanish Colonial impacts on the region. The first day’s 167 lots procured the highest price of the sale: a Rio Grande indigo banded blanket, which was bid within its $8/12,000 estimate to achieve $8,610, including