New Mexico Art History

with an emphasis on representational art
Selected books

(above: José Rafael Aragón,
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Nuestra Señora del Carmen), 9.3
x 7.2 inches, Barnes Foundation. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Stark Museum of Art: Taos Portfolio. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 2001. Catalogue featuring the works of artists who established an artistic colony in Taos, New Mexico in the early twentieth century. Artists include Bert Greer Phillips, Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, Joseph Henry Sharp, Eanger Irving Couse, William Herbert Dunton and others.
Art in New Mexico 1900-1945: Paths to Taos And Santa Fe by Charles C. Eldredge, Julie Schimmel, William H. Truettner, Smithsonian Press, Washington, D.C., 1988
The Song of the Loom: New Traditions in Navajo Weaving, By Frederick J. Dockstader, Montclair Art Museum. Published 1987 by Hudson Hills Press in association with the Montclair Art Museum. Indian textile fabrics. 130 pages. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Nov 5, 2007. Gives eighty-three examples of contemporary Navajo textile pieces.
Masterworks of the Taos Founders by Margaret Morris, Peters Corporation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1984
The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies by Arrell M. Gibson, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1983
Painters in Taos: THE FORMATIVE YEARS: THE HARRISON EITELJORG COLLECTION, By Harrison Eiteljorg, (Mo.) Springfield, Phoenix Art Museum, Art Museum, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake Art Center, Springfield, (Mo.). Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum. Published by Phoenix Art Museum, 1980. 54 pages. Google Books says: "Exhibition held at Phoenix Art Museum, Feb. 22 - Apr. 13, 1980; Salt Lake Art Center, June 20 - Aug. 3, 1980; Springfield Art Museum, Nov. 15 - Dec. 27, 1981 and others"
Taos and Santa Fe: the Artist Environment by Van Deren Coke, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1963
History of New Mexico: Its Resources and People, by George B. Anderson, Pacific States Publishing Co. Published by Pacific States Pub. Co., 1907, Item notes: v.1. Original from the University of California. Digitized Jun 9, 2007. 1047 pages [full view at Google Books]
Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950, by Dean A. Porter, Teresa Hayes Ebie, Suzan Campbell

(above: Fall Colors at Los Poblanos, 2021, Photo: John Hazeltine, 2021)
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