The public record already stretches across decades.
Even this first pass shows early visionary work, Southwest place imagery, restoration-era material, and late design studies.
Art timeline
A public timeline of her artwork, study, and preservation.
It gathers dated public traces into a readable chronology. It is not a final catalogue raisonne. It is a clear timeline of what can already be verified through preserved titles, posts, and restoration-era records.
Chronology overview
Follow the work by era, source, and recurring places.
The timeline helps visitors see when titles, places, materials, and preservation efforts appear in the public record. It gives the wider tribute a chronological backbone.
Sources give the sequence weight.
CalleValentinus, T.S. Steve Minton, LDS Archaeology, and related trails keep the timeline from feeling invented.
Preservation is part of the timeline too.
The later web-archive period matters because it is how much of this work stays visible at all.
1966–2005The years already visible in publicly preserved artwork and design references on this page.
Southwest to ancient-worldPlaces in the titles and reconstruction work range from Four Peaks and Monument Valley to Izapa, Teotihuacan, and Nimrud.
Art and restoration togetherThe timeline shows both standalone art and restoration-oriented MJA Studio work rather than forcing them into separate lives.
Preservation eraOlder works were re-presented publicly through blogs and third-party web traces in the late 2000s and 2010s.
Timeline notes
- Dates and titles come from public blog posts, third-party references, and preserved archive trails already listed in the source library.
- Some entries carry exact media notes such as watercolor, acrylic, foil collage, or colored pencil because those details are preserved publicly.
- Not every surviving work is on this page yet. This timeline shows the clearest early sequence, not the final complete body of work.
- When a place appears in the title, it is treated as part of the public record and linked conceptually to the places page.
Strong public anchors
The March 2018 CalleValentinus posts are especially important because they preserve clusters of titled works with dates and media notes in one place.
The 2008 T.S. Steve Minton archive adds public third-party presentation of the work, including the preserved Phoenix Bird reference and historical Tucson / MJA Studio traces.
The LDS Archaeology and Plates of Gold blogs strengthen the 1986–1995 restoration and reconstruction thread.
Chronology
Key stretches of the known public timeline.
Each block gathers the clearest year markers currently visible in the archive trail.
1966–1973 · Early visionary and landscape sequence
Madonna in Red (1966 & 1973), Subconscious City (1971), Space Dream (1971), Monument Valley Dream (1971), Milcah above 4 Peaks (1972), and Blue Thunderbird Over Mt. Graham (1973) mark an early cluster of visionary, symbolic, and place-centered work.
Public source grouping: CalleValentinus, March 6, 2018.
1975–1982 · Tucson, resurrection, astronomy, and mountain imagery
Designs for Tucson’s Gentle Ben’s (1975), Nolo Mi Tangere / Resurrection Scene (1977), Orion Astronomer (1980), Above 4 Peaks (1981), Four Peaks Mountain (1982), Horses of the Revelation (1982), Taos Profile on Redwood (1982), and Phoenix Bird (1982) show a dense period of place, symbol, and mythic image-making.
Public source grouping: CalleValentinus, March 6–7, 2018, plus the Phoenix Bird trace on T.S. Steve Minton, July 26, 2008. Use Tucson & MJA Studio for the outside Tucson-era web corroboration.
1986–1995 · Archaeology and reconstruction thread
Izapa Stela 5 (MJA Studio 1986), the Jaguar Mural Teotihuacan (MJA / MJA Studio 1986), later-preserved Nimrud restoration work, and the Monument Valley Arizona collages (MJA Studio 1995) show that the public archive does not separate research from making. Restoration, comparison, and re-presentation were part of the work itself.
Public source grouping: LDS Archaeology, Plates of Gold, and CalleValentinus. Use Izapa restoration and Archaeology & Restoration for the stronger source note trail.
1999–2005 · Fire, saints, studies, portraits, and design
Mt. Lemmon Fire at North Sarnoff (1999), St. George in an Eagle Helmet (2002), Study for St. George (2002), The Zoo Painting with Aunt Cathie (2003), The Tula Taxi (2003), Dreaming Sung by Al Perry (2004), CD cover design – Harpist (2005), and Gorilla Close-Up from the Zoo painting (2005) point to a late sequence of narrative, portrait, study, and design work.
Public source grouping: CalleValentinus, March 7 & 13, 2018.
2008–2018 · Public preservation and self-archiving
The work’s later public life matters too. The 2008 T.S. Steve Minton posts preserve public third-party presentation of the art and historical Tucson/MJA Studio references. The Blogger profile shows a blog network active since December 2008, while CalleValentinus and related blogs continue the preservation effort into 2018.
Public source grouping: Blogger profile, T.S. Steve Minton archive, Jan Brueghel Limoux, and 2018 blog activity. Use Tucson & MJA Studio and Jan Brueghel Limoux for the project-level archive view.
What the next timeline pass can add
The chronology can grow further with more direct post-level links, exhibition or publication mentions, and newer pages such as Mt. Baldy, Tucson / MJA Studio, and Jan Brueghel Limoux.
Timeline plus visual path
Use the timeline for era, then use the artwork guide for theme.
That makes the visual archive easier to navigate when someone knows the period of the work but not the exact title.
Best use cases
This is especially helpful for Southwest, symbolic, and restoration-era work.
Those branches cross medium and year, so a simple date list is not always enough on its own.
Named work clusters
A few public titles make the timeline easier to use.
These clusters help visitors move from year markers into the more specific work names the archive already supports in public.
1971–1975 Southwest and Tucson trail
Monument Valley Dream, Milcah above 4 Peaks, Blue Thunderbird Over Mt. Graham, and Designs for Tucson’s Gentle Ben’s help turn early date markers into recognizable named works.
1977–1982 sacred and symbolic trail
Nolo Mi Tangere / Resurrection Scene, Orion Astronomer, Above 4 Peaks, Horses of the Revelation, and Phoenix Bird anchor the symbolic and visionary branch of the timeline.
1986 and after restoration trail
Izapa Stela 5, Jaguar Mural Teotihuacan, Nimrud-related restoration work, and Monument Valley Arizona collages help visitors follow the later public record into reconstruction and studio-era threads.
Next archive path
Use the timeline as a map, then move into named works and recurring geographies.
The timeline helps orient the visitor. The catalog and places pages make it easier to keep following the threads.
Caption-backed timeline notes
The strongest work labels now connect straight to their catalog entries.
This keeps era browsing useful when a visitor needs a short, source-grounded note instead of a broad decade summary.
1971–1973 Southwest works
Use short notes such as Monument Valley Dream (1971 acrylic) or Blue Thunderbird Over Mt. Graham (1973 acrylic) when the title and place are already enough to identify the work.
1975–1977 Tucson and sacred works
Use Designs for Tucson’s Gentle Ben’s for the public-design branch and Nolo Mi Tangere / Resurrection Scene for the sacred-image branch when you need a concise caption-ready entry point.
1982–1995 studio and reconstruction anchors
Phoenix Bird, Izapa Stela 5, and the Monument Valley Arizona collages now have clearer catalog anchors when the date line, studio marker, or outside web trace is the main thing you want to preserve.