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Taos Painters: Wood W. Woolsey (1899-1970)
Raised in Danville, Illinois, Wood Woolsey's parents encouraged his artistic pursuits from a young age. In 1921 Woolsey moved with his parents to Indianapolis where he found work as a commercial artist with the Patterson Engraving Company. He also took some instruction at the John Herron Art Institute (now the Indianapolis Museum of Art.)
In 1928, Woolsey moved to Taos with his parents and younger sister, joining his brothers Carl and Jean who had already settled there. Carl, also a self-taught painter, had become intrigued with Taos after viewing an exhibition in Indianapolis of paintings by Walter Ufer, a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. At Ufer's invitation, Carl moved to Taos in 1927 and enjoyed almost immediate acclaim. Jean left for Taos the next year and opened a successful frame shop. Seeing his brothers' good fortunes, Wood believed that Taos was his opportunity to leave the commercial printing world and teach himself to be a
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Taos Painters: Ben Turner (1912-1966)
Born in 1912 in Gallup, New Mexico, Ben Turner was one of few native New Mexico artists to become a prominent commercial success in the first half of the twentieth century. He also was a direct descendent of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851), the famous English marine painter.
Ben showed a great deal of interest in art as a young child and enrolled at the University of New Mexico and then the Chicago Art Institute upon graduation from high school. He created a daily comic strip named
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Taos Painters: Leon Shulman Gaspard (1882-1964)
Leon Gaspard was an interesting addition to the New Mexico arts scene when he arrived there in 1918. A Russian-born, French-trained veteran of the airborne campaigns of the Great War, he arrived physically diminished from a horrific plane crash that had put him in a French hospital for two years. Seeking a more hospitable climate, he arrived in Taos to find a vibrant arts community and an exotic blend of native, western and Hispanic cultures.
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Leon Gaspard, Chimney Sweep, Oil on linen, 9
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Taos Painters: Ralph Goltry (1884-1971)
Ralph Goltry was born in 1884 near Chanute, Kansas in the Big Creek area. He studied with Charles A. Wilimovsky at the Kansas City Art Institute. When he graduated in 1904 he toured the western United States in his model T Ford making a living painting signs.
In 1922 he moved into a house in Phoenix which had a porch on the second story he could use as a studio. Goltry became a founding member of the Phoenix Art Guild. Fellow Kansas artist, John Stuart Curry, often came to visit and the two would tour and paint the Southwest together. Ralph became active also in the Taos, New Mexico art community.
During the remainder of his life, Goltry remained in Phoenix and sold his paintings of the local landscapes. He also sold reproduction rights to the Hallmark Card Company of Kansas City for at least three years. He died in 1971.
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Taos Painters: Carlos Vierra (1876-1937)
Carlos Vierra was born and raised in Moss Landing, California, near Monterrey. He studied art under Gottardo Piazzoni at the Mark Hopkins Institute before leaving San Francisco on a grueling six-month trip around Cape Horn to New York City. Once there, he worked hard to become a cartoonist, a growing artistic field at the time. After much struggling, his art begin to comfortably sustain him, though the comfort would be short-lived.
In 1904, Vierra contracted a potentially deadly lung disease. At the urging of his doctor, he moved to Santa Fe, whose climate was thought to be ideal for those recuperating from lung ailments. In Santa Fe, Vierra found himself the only western artist in a compact, fascinating town of varied ethnic and cultural makeup. One of his sustaining passions would be the architecture of Santa Fe and the surrounding pueblos, which he was commissioned by Frank Springer to paint in 1914, the beginning of a process that would eventually lead to a concerted preservation effort being launched to maintain the historical architecture of the Santa Fe area.
Carlos Vierra Oil Painting Pueblo Scene
Carlos Vierra, Pueblo Scene, Oil on Canvas Board, 8
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Taos Painters: Joseph Imhoff (1871-1955)
Joseph Imhoff was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1871. His first exposure to art was at age six when his godfather gifted him with a box of watercolors. Upon graduation, his father refused him further education unless he became a priest. Rejecting his father's wishes, he started teaching himself lithography and was hired by Currier & Ives. He eventually earned enough money from this job to buy a bookstore. In 1991 he eventually quit his job and sold the bookstore to pursue a formal art education in Europe. Traveling and painting for four years in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp and Munich he apprenticed with several artists.
Joseph Imhoff Plains Indian Sioux Watercolor on Paper
Joseph Imhoff, Plains Indian (Sioux), Watercolor on Paper, 29
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