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TAOS MODERNS
Postwar Modern Art
Images are not to scale.
Andrew Dasburg (1887-1979) "N.M Village" - 1973 pastel on paper 14 inches x 20 inches |
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Cady Wellls (1904-1954) "Jemez Mountain Winter" - 1939 watercolor & Guache on paper 12 inches x 18 inches - SOLD |
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Emil Bisttram (1895-1976) "Towards the Heavens" - 1959 oil on masonite 39 inches x 26.5 inches |
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Howard Cook (1901-1980) "Talpa Valley" - 1951 ink & ink wash on gesso board 9 inches x 12.5 inches |
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Ward Lockwood (1894-1963) "Ranchito" - circa 1950 pastel & crayon on paper 19 inches x 27 inches |
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Beatrice Mandelman (1912-1998) "Space Shapes" - circa 1950's oil on masonite 48 inches x 30 inches - SOLD |
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Louis Ribak (1902-1979) "Aegean Series #7"- circa 1958 oil masonite 72 inches x 48 inches |
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Clay Spohn (1898-1977) "Ballet of the Elements" - circa 1950's oil on masonite 25 inches x 34 inches - SOLD |
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Louise Ganthiers (1907-1982) "Morning Bird" - 1957 oil on canvas 47 inches x 41 inches |
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Lawrence Calcagno (1913-1993) "Red Cloud"- 1970 oil on canvas 41.25 inches x 78 inches |
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Earl Stroh (1924-2005) "Abstract Landscape"- 1972 oil on canvas 24 inches x 36 inches - SOLD |
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Michio Takayama (1903-1994) "Portal Toledo"- circa 1977 oil on Canvas 40 inches x 35 inches |
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Oli Sihvonen (1921-1991) "3 x 3, (variant ) 3 on Blues" - circa 1970's oil on canvas 28 inches x 30.25 inches |
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Leo Garel (1917-1999) "Taos at Night" - 1948 oil on board 30 inches x 36 inches |
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| Janet Lippincott (1918-2007) " Untitled Abstract" - circa 1970's oil on canvas 22 inches x 16 inches |
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| R.C. Ellis (1923-1979) "Volcano Series 17" - circa 1970's pastel on paper 5.5 inches x 7.5 inches |
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Robert Ray (1924-2002) "The Day After Solstice" - circa 1960's oil on linen mounted on masonite 24.75 inches x 25 inches |
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Louis Catusco (1927-1995) "American Series #5" - circa. 1960's oil on canvas 48 inches x 35 inches |
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| John De Puy (born 1927) "Monoliths #2" - 1958 oil on canvas 47 inches x 47 inches |
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Wesley Rusnell (born 1934) "Still Life (blue-black)" - circa 1965 oil on canvas 38 inches x 28 inches - SOLD |
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Lee Mullican (1919-1998) "Untitled Taos" - 1977 oil on canvas 24 inches x 50 inches - SOLD |
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Cliff Harmon (born 1923) "Interior #7" - 1949 oil on board 20 inches x 15 inches |
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TAOS MODERNS
Postwar Modern Art
1940’s – 1970’s
Taos
Moderns was an expression used for the first time in 1956 as an
exhibition title at the University of New Mexico's Ramond Jonson Art
Gallery, curated
by the progressive artist Raymond Jonson. This was a group
exhibition of progressive, experimental, avant-garde Taos painters,
including Andrew Dasburg, Louise Ganthiers, Ward Lockwood, Agnes
Martin, Robert Ray, Emil Bisttram, Clay Spohn, John De Puy, Louis
Ribak, Howard Cook, Ted Egri, Beatrice Mandelman, Thomas Benrimo and
others. Later this became the eponym used to described a loosely
associated, and by the 1950's, quickly expanding group of modernist
artists who culminated a new era of Post War (1940's to 1970's) Modern Art
in Taos.
This new wave of mostly non-representational abstract expressionist art took hold as dramatically in Taos as it did elsewhere in the United States during this period. The newly arriving artists merged with the existing early modernist painters, some of whom had already been well established in Taos as Modernists. Together, with like-minded intent to push the limits of this new American art form, they were driven and struggled to define the method of how to interpret the light, landscape and ancient culture of the geography in an abstract form. This group of artists’, some of whom are only now beginning to receive recognition made Taos a crossroads of Modernism between the major art center of New York and San Francisco.
This new wave of mostly non-representational abstract expressionist art took hold as dramatically in Taos as it did elsewhere in the United States during this period. The newly arriving artists merged with the existing early modernist painters, some of whom had already been well established in Taos as Modernists. Together, with like-minded intent to push the limits of this new American art form, they were driven and struggled to define the method of how to interpret the light, landscape and ancient culture of the geography in an abstract form. This group of artists’, some of whom are only now beginning to receive recognition made Taos a crossroads of Modernism between the major art center of New York and San Francisco.
Source: David Witt, MODERNISTS IN TAOS