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Most have heard of the Cino Pianturas: Five artists that lived and worked on Canyon road in Santa Fe during the middle of the last century. Their lives and work were and still are celebrated. There are however, many artists who lived and worked in Santa Fe for longer, who did not receive recognition, but are every bit as important. Los Escondidos, the unsung champions of Hispanic art, profiles three Hispanic artists who have worked in relative obscurity while keeping their artistic heritage alive. Eliseo Rodriguez is a Native of Santa Fe New Mexico who has lived and worked on Canyon Road his whole life. He is an accomplished painter but it is his work in creating straw art that has made him a guardian of this traditional Hispanic art form. Ernesto Martinez has worked at the historic La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe for almost 45 years. A native New Mexican Ernest has spent his entire adult life creating original art in and for a hotel that largely thanks to him, is a living working museum. Abad Lucero has k
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