The artwork created by the Taos Founders, also known as the Taos Society of Artists, is some of the West's finest. These Taos Artists include what is known as the Taos eight. Click on any artists below to read their biography:
Taos Founders/Taos Society BiographiesAssociate Taos Society Members Biographies
Catharine Critcher
Julius Rolshoven
Birger Sandzen
Los Cinco Pintores Biographies
The Santa Fe Artist scene was also making history when five well known Santa Fe artists started the Los Cinco Pintores. Click on any artist below to read their biography.
Their artist colony like the Taos Founders emphasized the local New Mexico flavor both in the people and their environment. The Cinco Pintores especially Nash and Bakos had a definite modern bent to their art work.
Santa Fe And Taos Artist Biographies
Many other well know artists not associated with either the Taos Founders or Los Cinco Pintores found the landscape of Taos and Santa Fe irresistible. They came mainly from well trained academic backgrounds to make New Mexico their home both permanent and part time. These Taos and Santa Fe Artists included:
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Frank Applegate Cyrus Leroy Baldridge Patrocino Barela Donald Beauregard Thomas Duncan Benrimo Thomas Hart Benton Sandor Bernath Helen G. Blumenschein E. Boyd Paul Burlin Charles Capps Kenneth M. Chapman Manville Chapman Regina Tatum Cooke Stuart Davis Arthur Dove Louis Ewing Leo Garel Eric Gibberd Arthur W. Hall Marsden Hartley Burt Harwood Russell Vernon Hunter Henriette Wyeth Hurd Rebecca Salisbury James Raymond Jonson Gina Knee Albert Krehbiel Leon Kroll Gaspard Latoix |
Margaret Lefranc Kathryn Leighton Gisella Loeffler William Lumpkins Beatrice Mandelman Jan Matulka Ralph Waldo Emerson Meyers Lloyd Moylan Arthur Musgrave Helmuth Naumer Polia Pillin Louis Ribak Olive Rush Alice Schille Howard Schleeter Hella Shattock C. A. Seward Eugenie Shonnard Anna Katherine Skeele Bettina Steinke Eda Sterchi Maurice Sterne Dorothy Stewart Vladan Stiha Pansy Stockton Virginia True Elmer P. Turner Laura van Pappelendam Cady Wells John Young-Hunter Marguerite Zorach William Zorach
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Important Western Artists Biographies
The list of Western Artists Biographies represents some of the best that either lived or painted in the West. This includes most of the western artists that visited New Mexico and Arizona.
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Charles Partridge Adams Robert Wesley Amick Dana Bartlett Harold Betts Franz Bischoff Maurice Braun William de la Montagne Cary Eliot Clark John Clymer Colin Campbell Cooper Charles Craig Philip Curtis Lew Davis Charles Deas Edwin Deming Albert DeRome Joe DeYoung Harvey Dunn Charlie Dye R. Farrington Elwell John Fery John Gamble Gilbert Gaul Percy Gray James Hall John Hampton Sam Hyde Harris John Hauser Herman Herzog Thomas Hill Frank B. Hoffman Alexandre Hogue Grace Carpenter Hudson |
Tom Lea Robert Lougheed Tom Lovell Fletcher Martin Arthur Matthews Lucia Matthews Francis McComas Brownell McGrew Lon Megargee Alfred Jacob Miller Joe Mora Peter Moran George Phippen Gottardo Piazzoni Burt Proctor Hanson Puthuff William Ranney Granville Redmond Winold Reiss Guy Rose Carl Rungius Frank Schoonover Jack Wilkinson Smith John Mix Stanley Donald Teague Marion Wachtel Melvin Warren William Wendt T. Worthington Whittredge Charles Wimar Theodore Wores N. C. Wyeth Rufus Zogbaum |
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