Lumpkins, William T.

Lumpkins was an artist and architect from Clayton, New Mexico. He spent most of his career in New Mexico and California, and is the author of numerous books on architecture, and solar construction in particular.

From the description of William T. Lumpkins papers, 1930-1982. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37397181

Sculptor, painter, designer and craftsman.

Born in Marlow, Oklahoma; lived in La Jolla, Calif. and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Wrote and illustrated Modern Pueblo Homes. Co-founded Santa Fe Art Institute, 1985. Died March 20, 2000.

From the description of William T. Lumpkins papers, 1958-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291300

William Lumpkins, artist and architect, was born on 4/8/1910 in Clayton, N.M. He studied architecture and anthropology at the University of Southern California, industrial plant planning and personnel organization at the University of California Los Angeles and engineering at Colorado State College.

He began exhibiting his paintings in 1932. In 1936 he began his career as an architect and building supervisor. Between 1946 and 1952 he designed homes and institutional buildings from an office in New Mexico. Between 1952 and 1967 he designed buildings in La Jolla, California. In 1967 he returned to Santa Fe where he opened an office on Canyon Road. In 1973 and 1974 he financed and began working with a group of architects interested in developing principles of solar design. They called their firm Sun Mountain Design. Besides art and architecture William Lumpkins was actively involved in community planning, historic preservation and the American Civil Liberties Union.

From the guide to the William T. Lumpkins Papers, 1930-1982, (Museum of New Mexico. Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.)