New Mexico Masterpieces; Interviews with Dean Porter Part 2 and David Witt Part 1

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)

This is raw footage for the documentary New Mexico Masterpieces. It contains the second part of an interview with Dean Porter. In this interview, Dean discusses the piece “Winter Funeral” by artist Victor Higgins. He discusses what New Mexico meant to Victor Higgins and how New Mexico has embraced this particular piece. This raw footage also contains the first part of an interview with David Witt. In this interview, David discusses “Winter Funeral” and what the piece touches on with the current events taking place during the time of its creation. He discusses Higgins’s work, Higgins’s patronages, and the imprint the work has had on within the art world.