1949

Nancy Steen, painter and printmaker, received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Gonzaga University with honors and as a member of National Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu; and did her graduate work at New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico. After producing a series of lithographs at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she moved to California and founded her own lithography workshop, New Leaf Press, producing her lithographs and publishing lithographs for other Bay Area and New York artists. Her lithographs and paintings are a combination of realism with fantasy that utilize subtle colors and depth. Steen’s exacting, technical ability and adept use of color confirm her as one of the Southwest’s outstanding talents.

Nancy Steen has shown her work at major juried, invitational and one-woman exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Colgate University Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Montgomery, Alabama, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Monterey Peninsula Museum, John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, University of Calgary Museum and the Museum of New Mexico. Several corporate and private collections are Chase Manhattan Bank, Pacific Telephone Company, Environmental Protection Agency, Congress Factors, Nabisco World Headquarters, Prudential Insurance and the Bank of America.

Cilantro 
Acrylic on Linen 
60" x 36"

Trumpit 
Acrylic on Linen 
32" x 36"

Beverly Hills 
Acrylic on Linen 
48" x 48"

KeeWee 
Acrylic on Linen
38" x 32"

Fleur Violette
Acrylic on Linen 
36" x 60"

The Kew Gardens 2 
Mixed Media on Canvas 
24" x 36"

The Kew Gardens 3 
Mixed Media on Canvas 
24" x 36"

The Kew Gardens 4
Mixed Media on Canvas 
24" x 36"

The Kew Gardens 5
Mixed Media on Canvas 
24" x 36"

Loretta Romero Manning 
Lithograph 
22" x 30"

Dominica Pino Chavez 
Lithograph 
22" x 30"

Paper Poppies 
Monoprint 
24" x 46"

Bellais' Roses 
Acrylic on Linen 
60" x 72" 
            

Wong's Flowers  
Acrylic on Linen 
98" x 36" 

            

Rose 1 
Acrylic on Linen 
32" x 28"

Rose 2 
Acrylic on Linen 
36" x 36"  
            

Rose 3 
Acrylic on Linen 
36" x 42"
            

Calla Lily 
Acrylic on Canvas 
72" x 60"

Gladiola 
Watercolor 
44" x 33" 
            

Salinas VII 
Acrylic on Canvas 
40" x 42" 
            

Spider Lily 
Acrylic on Canvas 
48" x 48" 
            

Guinea 
Acrylic on Canvas 
48" x 54"  
            

My Garden 
Acrylic on Linen 
35" x 25"

Crocus 
Lithograph 
36" x 26"  
            

 Gladiolas  
Lithograph 
36" x 26" 

Lily of Salinas 
Lithograph 
26" x 36"  
            

Salinas 
Lithograph 
26" x 36"  
            

Fuchia 
Lithograph 
22" x 30"

Rose 
Lithograph 
22" x 30"

Amaryllis  
Lithograph 
26" x 30"  

In 2021, after having back surgery and while I was still in the hospital, I had a stroke and a brain bleed.  It resulted in the worst headache I have ever experienced… everything was black. I saw a painting that I painted several years earlier, and it began to move, weaving back and forth, bending in every direction.  Then a brain appeared and tried to join the painting… Marillita is the name of the painting, which is in the series of "Women who have Influenced my Life".  Marillita was my maternal grandmother.  She died of a cerebral hemorrhage. I felt she was telling me it wasn’t my time. 
I had to paint what I experienced.

Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my life 
48" x 48"  
Acrylic on Canvas

Stroke 1 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas

Stroke 2 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas
         

Stroke 3 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas
         

Stroke 4 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas
          

Stroke 5 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas

Stroke 6 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas

Stroke 7 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas

Stroke 8 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas

Stroke 9 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas

Stroke 10 Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my Life 
16" x 20"  
Mixed Media on Canvas

Quilt Paintings

Nancy Steen in her studio 
with quilts and quilt paintings

Applique Quilt
Acrylic on Canvas 
38" x 36" 
            

First Quilt 
Acrylic on Canvas 
14" x 18"  
            

Heart Quilt 
Acrylic on Canvas 
45" x 45" 
            

Iris Quilt 
Acrylic on Canvas 
20" x  22"  
            

Maya's Quilt 
Acrylic on Canvas 
24" x 30"
            

Tulip Quilt
Acrylic on Canvas 
42" x 44"  
            

Star Quilt 
Acrylic on Canvas 
36" x 38" 
            

Heart Quilt 
Acrylic on Canvas 
36" 

Petrita 
Women who have Influenced my life 
Acrylic on Canvas
60" x 40"

Nepomucena 
Women who have Influenced my life   
Acrylic on Canvas
48" x 60"

Palmina 
Women who have Influenced my life   
Acrylic on Canvas
48" x 48"

Jean Bain 
Women who have Influenced my life 
40" x 60"  
Acrylic on Canvas

Nell Riddle 
Women who have Influenced my life 
44" x 36"  
Acrylic on Canvas

Rosie -- Rosemary Westerbuhr Tucker 
Women who have Influenced my life 
34" x 42"  
Acrylic on Canvas

Marillita Luna Pino
Women who have Influenced my life 
48" x 48"  
Acrylic on Canvas

Glennis -- Glennis Shea 
Women who have Influenced my life 
24" x  24"  
             Acrylic on Canvas            
 

Lucinda Jacoby
Women who have Influenced my life 
36" x 60
             Acrylic on Canvas           
          

Flag 1 2026 
17" x 14"  
Acrylic on Canvas
          

Flag 2 2026 
18" x 14"  
Acrylic on Canvas
          

Flag 3 2026 
17" x 14"  
Acrylic on Canvas

Flag 4 2026 
16" x 12"  
Acrylic on Canvas
          

Minnesota 
14" x 23"  
Acrylic on Canvas
          

For Life, Liberty and Freedom
Acrylic on Canvas
34" x 46"
Acrylic on Canvas

New Mexico 
36" x 44"  
Acrylic on Canvas

Long May it Wave 
30" x 44"  
Acrylic on Canvas

My Colorado 
24" x  34" 
Acrylic on Canvas

Ohhhhhh Canada 
20" x 30"
Acrylic on Canvas

Frank's Texas  
20" x 30"  
Acrylic on Canvas

51 for Statehood
44" x 38"
Acrylic on Canvas

Jim Kelly, Nancy Steen and Sonia Gechtoff

Sonia Gechtoff 
2x3>7 Suite
15" x 15"
Lithograph

Sonia Gechtoff 
2x3>7 Suite
15" x 15"
Lithograph

Jim Kelly
2x3>7 Suite  
15" x 15"
Lithograph

Jim Kelly 
2x3>7 Suite
15" x 15"
Lithograph

Nancy Steen 
2x3>7 Suite
15" x 15"
Lithograph

Nancy Steen 
2x3>7 Suite
15" x 15"
Lithograph