The Taos Society of Artists
Author: Robert Rankin White
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This definitive documentary history of the Society that made the northern New Mexico town famous as an art colony.
Author: Robert Rankin White
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This definitive documentary history of the Society that made the northern New Mexico town famous as an art colony.
Author: Dean A. Porter
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826321091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A well-illustrated study of the patronage that allowed the fledging art colony in northern New Mexico to flourish.
Author: Mary Carroll Nelson
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The founding of New Mexico's famous art colony and its pioneer artists"--Jacket subtitle.
Author: Julie Schimmel
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The only book-length study of the initiator of the Taos art colony.
Author: Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher:
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains an essay about the artists in Taos, New Mexico: brief biographies, portraits, and samples of their work. [Luhan often invited artists and writers to Taos.].
Author: Charles C. Eldredge
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history of the art of New Mexico and examines the works of Hispanic and Indian artists of the region.
Author: Joan Marter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0300208421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication contains a survey of female abstract expressionist artists, revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work and the movement as a whole as well as highlighting the lack of critical attention they have received to date.
Author: David L. Witt
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781878610164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This study focuses on those artists who created a substantial body of work in Taos between the mid-1940s and the early 1960s. Sixty or more artists who identified themselves as modernists, or as being influenced by modernism in art, lived in Taos during this period. A representative group of them are featured in this book"--Page 3.
Author: Virginia Couse Leavitt
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0806164433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936) showed remarkable promise as a young art student. His lifelong interest in Native American cultures also started at an early age, inspired by encounters with Chippewa Indians living near his hometown, Saginaw, Michigan. After studying in Europe, Couse began spending summers in New Mexico, where in 1915 he helped found the famous Taos Society of Artists, serving as its first president and playing a major role in its success. This richly illustrated volume, featuring full-color reproductions of his artwork, is the first scholarly exploration of Couse’s noteworthy life and artistic achievements. Drawing on extensive research, Virginia Couse Leavitt gives an intimate account of Couse’s experiences, including his early struggles as an art student in the United States and abroad, his study of Native Americans, his winter home and studio in New York City, and his life in New Mexico after he relocated to Taos. In examining Couse’s role as one of the original six founders of the Taos Society of Artists, the author provides new information about the art colony’s early meetings, original members, and first exhibitions. As a scholar of art history, Leavitt has spent decades researching her subject, who also happens to be her grandfather. Her unique access to the Couse family archives has allowed her to mine correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks, and memorabilia, all of which add fresh insight into the American art scene in the early 1900s. Of particular interest is the correspondence of Couse’s wife, Virginia Walker, an art student in Paris when the couple first met. Her letters home to her family in Washington State offer a vivid picture of her husband’s student life in Paris, where Couse studied under the famous painter William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian. Whereas many artists of the early twentieth century pursued a radically modern style, Couse held true to his formal academic training throughout his career. He gained renown for his paintings of southwestern landscapes and his respectful portraits of Native peoples. Through his depictions of the domestic and spiritual lives of Pueblo Indians, Couse helped mitigate the prejudices toward Native Americans that persisted during this era.