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After college, Ward moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, under the expansive Western Skies, A.C.'s inspiration turned from an internal source to an external one. The landscape was the new task masker. The light, the Rockies, the valley floor all held reservoirs of visual information that needed to be sorted through, distilled, and captured in paint. On a whim, one year later, Ward packed up her Nissan Sentra and headed for Northern New Mexico. It was love a t first sight. The landscape the adobe buildings, the life style were as bright as her college palette. At the age of twenty nine, A.C. furthered her own career and opened the A.C. Ward gallery in Taos. In a crumbling adobe decorated with pots of geraniums and her grandmother's wicker furniture, Ward lived the artists dream. The gallery became a gathering place for artists and art lover's to met She offered figure drawing sessions to a group of young artists referring to themselves as G.R.O.U.P.