Taos Arts
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The artists, patrons, and historical figures who show up across these stories.
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Beatrice Mandelman
1912 – 1998
Abstract painter associated with the Taos Moderns; taught at the Taos Valley Art School.
2 stories
Bert Geer Phillips
1868 – 1956
Painter who stayed in Taos after a wagon wheel broke on a trip through in 1898.
1 story
D.H. Lawrence
1885 – 1930
English novelist who lived and wrote at a ranch north of Taos in the 1920s.
1 story
Ernest Blumenschein
1874 – 1960
Painter whose broken wagon wheel outside Taos led to the founding of an art colony in 1898.
1 story
Eva Mirabal
1920 – 1968
Taos Pueblo painter and WWII war cartoonist, known as Eah-Ha-Wa.
1 story
Louis Ribak
1902 – 1979
Social realist and abstract painter, co-founder of the Taos Valley Art School.
2 stories
Mabel Dodge Luhan
1879 – 1962
Patron whose invitations drew D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ansel Adams to Taos.
2 stories
Millicent Rogers
1902 – 1953
Collector who built Taos's finest archive of Native and Hispanic art.
2 stories
Nicolai Fechin
1881 – 1955
Russian-born painter who built his Taos home and studio by hand, 1927-33.
2 stories
Patrocinio Barela
1900 – 1964
Santero woodcarver whose 1936 show introduced Taos carving to MoMA.
1 story