In 2009 Dennis Hopper was invited by the Town of Taos to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of his film "Easy Rider" which was partially filmed in northern New Mexico. In conjunction with this, the Harwood Museum asked Dennis to put on a show of his photography and art at the museum. He responded that since a group of artists whom he had known in southern California since the 60's lived in Taos, he would like to invite them to also be in the show. Thus the show "Hopper At The Harwood" was born. In January there was a meeting at the Harwood of Dennis and four of the invited artists, Ron Davis, Ron Cooper, Robert Dean Stockwell, and Larry Bell. A fifth artist, ceramicist Ken Price, was unable to attend because of illness. At the request of the museum, I attended to make informal snapshots of the meeting. At the end, we decided to make a group photo of all the artists present and these are two of the pictures which resulted. In light of Dennis Hopper's subsequent diagnosis and death from prostate cancer, this event has taken on an added dimension. Indeed, after his death, Hopper's body was returned to Taos for a funeral at the famous Ranchos de Taos Church and he is now buried here in New Mexico.

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