Ernest Martin Hennings (1886-1956) Towering Pines

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: J. H. Sharp, E. I. Couse, E.L.Blumenschein, Bert Phillips, Walter Ufer, Victor Higgins, Kenneth Adams. and Herbert “Buck” Dunton. The Taos Artist left a legacy that is still one of Americas finest art colonies.

Herbert “Buck” Dunton (1878-1936) Delivering The Mail

The Santa Fe Artist scene was also making history when five well known Santa Fe artists started the Los Cinco Pintores, these included: Fremont Ellis, Jozeph Bakos, Walter Mruk, William Schuster, and 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.

Carl Von Hassler (1887-1969) Aspens in Color

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: Leon Gaspard, Nicholi Fechin, Ward Lockwood, Catherine Critcher, Sheldon Parsons, Carl Redin, Doel Reed, Dorthy Brett, John Sloan, Robert Henri, Randall Davey,Carl Von Hassler, Emil Bisttram, Sheldon Parsons, Albert Schmidt, Carl and Wood Woolsey, Carlos Vierra, Agnes Simms, Gerald Cassidy, Laverne Nelson Black, Warren Rollins,Ila McAfee,Theodore Van Soelen,Ben Turner ,just to name a few.

Carlos Vierra (1876-1937) Ranchito-Cuyamungue 1928

Auction Prices and Private Sales of works by the Taos Founders, Taos Society as well as by other Taos and Santa Fe Artists have soared according to Dr. Mark Sublette owner of Medicine Man Gallery and an authority on the Taos Founders and Santa Fe artists. “Prices above a million dollars for a major painting by the Taos Founders have now occurred for many of these Taos artists.” “As a dealer in these early Taos and Santa Fe paintings I only see a increase demand for these works and now also see a new interest in some of the lesser known New Mexico artist from the early twentieth century.”

 

Taos Founders, also known as the Taos Society of Artists their Biographies, Museum Holdings, and Auction Records

 

Kenneth Adams Ernest L. Blumenschein 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 Fremont Ellis Jozef Bakos Walter Mruk William Shuster Willard Nash

Santa Fe And Taos Artists Biographies, Museum Holdings, and Auction Records

 

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 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

Important Western and Southwestern Artists Biographies, Museum Holdings, and Auction Records

 

Louis Akin John James Audubon Oliver Glen Barrett Joe Beeler, CA Harry C. Best Albert Bierstadt Edward Borein Carl Oscar Borg Cornelius Botke Jessie 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 Augustus William Dunbier Nick Eggenhofer Jessie Benton Steese Evans Henry Francois Farny Victor Clyde Forsythe Merrell Robert Gage William Gollings Ralph Goltry

Arthur Earl Haddock James Hall Edith Hamlin Armin Carl Hansen 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 Charles Bird King 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 Audley Dean Nicols 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 Olaf Carl 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