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 Biographies
Kenneth Adams

Ernest .L.Blumenschein

O. E. Berninghaus

Eanger Irving Couse

Herbert "Buck" Dunton

Victor Higgins

E. Martin Hennings

Bert Geer Phillips

Joseph Henry Sharp

Walter Ufer

Associate Members
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.

Fremont Ellis

Jozef Bakos

Walter Mruk

William Shuster

Willard Nash

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.

Other 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: Click on any artist name to read their biography

Henry Balink Gustave Baumann Charles Berninghaus Emil Bisttram Laverne Nelson Black Homer Dean Boss Dorothy Brett Gerald Cassidy Willard Clark Howard Norton Cook Andrew Dasburg Randall Davey Nicolai Fechin Joseph Fleck Leon Gaspard Albert Lorey Groll Norma Bassett Hall Helen Hardin William Penhallow Henderson Robert Henri Odon Hullenkremer Joseph Imhoff Anna Elizabeth Keener Nellie Augusta Knopf Gene Kloss Barbara Latham

John Ward Lockwood Ila Mae McAfee Ralph Waldo Emerson Meyers Alfred Morang Datus E. Myers B. J. O. Nordfeldt Georgia O'Keeffe Hans Paap Sheldon Parsons Carl Redin Doel Reed Charles Henry Reynolds Warren Rollins Albert Schmidt Fritz Scholder Agnes Sims Agnes Tait Ben Turner Theodore van Soelen Carlos Vierra Carl von Hassler Frank Reed Whiteside Joseph Roy Willis Carl Woolsey Wood Woolsey

Other Western Artists Biographies

Louis Akin Oliver Glen Barrett Joe Beeler, CA Harry C. Best Albert Bierstadt Edward Borein Carl Oscar Borg Cornelius Botke Jesse Arms Botke Conrad Buff Eldridge Ayer Burbank Ferdinand Burgdorff George Elbert Burr Frank Tolles Chamberlain Alice Cleaver Robert Clunie Leola Hall Coggins Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton Astley David Middleton Cooper Rudolf Daniel Ludwig Cronau Dawson Dawson-Watson Gerard Curtis Delano Maynard Dixon Jack Dudley Augustus William Dunbier Nick Eggenhofer Jessie Benton Steese Evans Henry Francois Farny Merrell Robert Gage William Gollings Ralph Goltry Arthur Earl Haddock James Hall Edith Hamlin Herman Wendelborg Hansen Fred Harman Jr. Lloyd Harting Lee F. Hersch Stefan A. Hirsch Carl Hoermann Lawrence Hosmer Peter Hurd Frank Tenney Johnson Wiliam E. Johnson William Keith Joseph Kleitsch		William Henry Dethlef Koerner Paul Lauritz Bertha Stringer Lee William Robinson Leigh Ralph Love John Marin Lucy Clare Drake Marlow Pete Martinez Thomas Loraine McKenney Lloyd Mitchell Thomas Moran Dale Nichols Frederick O'Hara Edgar Payne Edgar Samuel Paxon Ralph Pearson Don Perceval Fritioff Albin Persson Edward Henry Potthast Ace Powell Marjorie Jane Reed Leonard Reedy Frederic Remington Charles Marion Russell Carl Sammons Frank P. Sauerwein William Joseph Schaldach Robert Scriver, CA Carl Olaf Seltzer John Sloan Eric Sloane Lillian Wilhelm Smith Ross Stefan Charles Frederick Surendorf James Swinnerton Rolla Sims Taylor Elliot Bouton Torrey Jack van Ryder Frank Vavra Russ Vickers Hernando Villa Harold von Schmidt Harold Buck Weaver Olaf Weighorst Gunnar Widforss Byron Wolfe Francisco Zuniga

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