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Taos Painters: Datus Ensign Myers (1879 - 1960)
Myers was born in Jefferson, Oregon, the son of a hops farmer. The family moved to southern California when Myers was about seventeen, and he enrolled in art school in Los Angeles. After operating the family's Oregon farm for several years, he had earned enough money to attend the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied under John Vanderpoel and Frederick Freer from 1905 to 1910.
Upon graduation, Myers married Alice Clark, a fellow student and first female graduate in architecture from the Art Institute. Myers joined the Chicago Society of Artists, showed his work, and executed a mural commission in Chicago before moving back to Oregon in 1913. Shortly thereafter, an Art Institute instructor, Charles Corwin, invited Myers to San Francisco to help restore his 1888 Cyclorama painting, The Battle of Gettysburg, which was to be shown at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. The Myers moved back to Chicago in 1918 and then to San Diego in the early 1920s where he created murals for the US Grant Hotel. Myers continued showing his work in Chicago at least until 1921.
Datus, Alice and their two children spent the summers of 1923 and 1924 in Santa Fe and Taos. They moved to Santa Fe the following year, taking up residence in
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Taos Painters: Carl E. Woolsey (1902-1965)
Raised in Danville, Illinois, Carl Woolsey moved with his family to Indianapolis in 1921 and then to Long Beach, California in 1922. By this time, Woolsey had taught himself to paint, but he also received brief instruction from the artist Henry Richter in Long Beach. In 1925 Woolsey's father, Charles, moved the family back to Indianapolis where Carl continued his self-instruction in fine art.
Carl Woolsey Oil Painting Winter in Taos
Carl Woolsey, Winter in Taos, Oil on Canvas, 30
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