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Art timeline

A public timeline of her artwork, study, and preservation.

This page 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.

Artwork from Mary Jill Alice Roe Bennett used to introduce the timeline page

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.

Span

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.

Anchors

Sources give the sequence weight.

CalleValentinus, T.S. Steve Minton, LDS Archaeology, and related trails keep the timeline from feeling invented.

Afterlife

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.

WatercolorAcrylicMonument ValleyFour PeaksMt. Graham

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.

TucsonFour PeaksTaosFoil collageRedwood

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.

IzapaTeotihuacanNimrudMJA StudioMonument Valley

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.

Mt. LemmonStudy workDesign workPrismacolorAcrylic

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.

Third-party web traceBlogger since 2008CalleValentinusWeb legacy

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.

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.