Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony
Author: Julie Schimmel
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only book-length study of the initiator of the Taos art colony.
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Bert Geer Phillips
Author: Jenny Parks Forwood
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Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed and entertaining history of Phillips, a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, the first artist to permanently settle in Taos, NM and is considered to be the founder of the Taos art colony.
The Taos Society of Artists
Author: Robert Rankin White
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis definitive documentary history of the Society that made the northern New Mexico town famous as an art colony.
Little Art Colony and US Modernism
Author: Geneva M. Gano
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1474439772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.
Masterworks of the Taos Founders
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKErnest L. Blumenschein
Author: Robert W. Larson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0806189010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art colony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character and life experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century. Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson begin their life of “Blumy” with his Ohio childhood and trace his development as an artist from early study in Cincinnati, New York City, and Paris through his first career as a book and magazine illustrator. Blumenschein and artist Bert G. Phillips discovered the budding art community of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898. In 1915 the two along with Joseph Henry Sharp, E. Irving Couse, and other like-minded artists organized the Taos Society of Artists, famous for preferring American subjects over European themes popular at the time. Leaving illustration work behind, Blumenschein sought a distinctive place in his American homeland and in fine-art painting. He moved with his family to Taos in 1919 and began his long career as a figurative and landscape painter, becoming prominent among American artists for his Pueblo Indian figures and stunning southwestern landscapes. Robert Larson calls Blumenschein a “transformational artist,” trained classically but drawing to a limited degree on abstract representation. Placing Blumy’s life in the context of World War I, the Great Depression, and other national and world events, the authors show how an artistic genius turned a fascination with the people, light, and color of New Mexico into a body of work of lasting significance to the international art world.
Buried Treasures
Author: Richard Melzer
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0865345317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMelzer offers an impressive new book about famous New Mexico gravesites, usually the only monuments left to honor the human treasures who helped shape state, national, and often international history.
Branding the American West
Author: Marian Wardle
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2016-02-17
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0806154128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArtists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the “Wild West” and fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume, illustrated with more than 150 images, examines select paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists both enhanced and contradicted earlier representations of the West. Prior to this period, American art tended to portray the West as a wild frontier with untamed lands and peoples. Renowned artists such as Henry Farny and Frederic Remington set their work in the past, invoking an environment immersed in conflict and violence. This trademark perspective began to change, however, when artists enamored with the Southwest stamped a new imprint on their paintings. The contributors to this volume illuminate the complex ways in which early-twentieth-century artists, as well as filmmakers, evoked a southwestern environment not just suspended in time but also permanent rather than transient. Yet, as the authors also reveal, these artists were not entirely immune to the siren call of the vanishing West, and their portrayal of peaceful yet “exotic” Native Americans was an expansion rather than a dismissal of earlier tropes. Both brands cast a romantic spell on the West, and both have been seared into public consciousness. Branding the American West is published in association with the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, and the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas.
A Place in the Sun
Author: Thomas Brent Smith
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2016-01-20
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0806154101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the hundreds of foreign students who attended the Munich Art Academy between 1910 and 1915, Walter Ufer (1876–1936) and E. Martin Hennings (1886–1956) returned to the United States to foster the development of a national art. They ultimately established their reputations in the American Southwest. The two German American artists shared much in common, and both would gain membership in the celebrated Taos Society of Artists. Featuring nearly 150 color plates and historical photographs, A Place in the Sun is a long-overdue tribute to the lives, achievements, and artistic legacy of these two important artists. In tracing the lifelong friendship and intersecting careers of Ufer and Hennings, the contributors to this volume explore the social and artistic implications of the artists’ German heritage and training. Following their training in Munich, both men hoped to build careers in the spirited art environment of Chicago. Both were sponsored by wealthy businessmen, many of German descent. The support of these patrons allowed Ufer and Hennings to travel to the American Southwest, where they—like so many other talented artists—fell under the spell of Taos and its picturesque scenery. They also encountered the region’s Native peoples and Hispanic culture that inspired many of their paintings. Despite their mutual interests, Ufer and Hennings were not identical by any means. Each artist had a distinct artistic style and, as the essays in this volume reveal, the two men could not have had more different personalities or career trajectories. Connoisseurs of southwestern art have long admired the masterworks of Ufer and Hennings. By offering a rich sampling of their paintings alongside informative essays by noted art historians, A Place in the Sun ensures that their significant contributions to American art will be long remembered. A Place in the Sun is published in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum.
The Taos Artists Response to Modernism
Author: Annette P. Musgrave
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis fills the gap in our knowledge of the Taos Society of Artists, whose members forged exciting new directions that resulted in an authentic American art. The site of the first New Mexico art colony was in Taos. There, artists found a refuge where they could experiment and develop personal styles. The Taos Society of Artists was originally founded by Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert Geer Phillips, and Ernest L. Blumenschein. Within a few years Eanger Irving Couse, Oscar E. Berninghaus, William Herbert Dunton, Victor Higgins, and Walter Ufer joined the group. Histories of American art have largely neglected the important historical moment when American artists in the West moved away from classical artistic traditions into newer modern modes of painting. The lives and artworks of the Taos group form an essential chapter in the formation of American modernism. This thesis serves to begin the process of bridging the gap in American art history between classical and modern styles, from the art of masters such as Fredric Remington and Charles Russell to Georgia O'Keeffe and Maynard Dixon. While the subject of early Taos paintings may be viewed as simply western or Indian, their styles range from idealistic to realistic. From the inception of the Taos Society of Artists, influential patrons who played a large role in America's southwestern expansion valued their paintings and frequently paid large sums of money for them. In spite of their prominence, however, there is little or no information about the group in widely used art history textbooks. Art history classes taught at the college level typically do not include works by Taos artists or mention their important role in American art history. This thesis aims to fill the lack of scholarly literature and to demonstrate the importance of the Taos Society of Artists in American art history.
