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Taos Painters: Fritz Scholder (1937-2005)
A prolific painter, sculptor, lithographer, teacher, mentor and bookmaker; Fritz Scholder changed Native American art forever and didn't even consider himself part of Native America. Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Scholder's grandmother was Luiseno, a California Mission tribe. But he was raised in North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. He knew from a very early age when he sold his first painting to a grade-school friend for four dollars that he wanted to be an artist.
Fritz Scholder Painting Man in Blue
Fritz Scholder, Man in Blue, Mixed Media, circa mid 1980s, 27
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Taos Painters: Charles Henry Reynolds (1902-1963)
Reynolds was born in Kiowa, Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma and Tulsa University. He worked as a bookkeeper, eventually become chief clerk to the Treasurer of Skelly Oil Company, and later became secretary and treasurer of an engineering firm.
Reynolds started painting on his own in 1925. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Julian Academy in Paris, but was mostly self-taught. He painted realistic landscapes in oil and watercolor, drawing inspiration from Taos painters such as O.E. Berninghaus and J.H. Sharp.
Reynolds began visiting and painting New Mexico in 1932 and moved permanently to Taos in 1946. He later opened an art gallery there, selling his own and others' work. He exhibited extensively in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, including one-man shows at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa and the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe.
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Taos Painters: Stefan A. Hirsch (1899 - 1964)
Hirsch was born in Nuremberg, Germany to American parents. He studied art at the University of Zurich in Switzerland where he became involved in the Dada movement. In 1919, Hirsch moved to New York where he met Hamilton Easter Field, the great champion of modern art, who promoted his work. He also became involved with the Society of Independent Artists. During the 1920s Hirsh established himself as a painter and taught art. In 1929 he took a break from teaching and traveled in the Southwest.
Hirsch married the artist, Elsa Rogo, sometime before 1931 when they made a painting trip to Taxco, Mexico. The next year Rogo became head of an art school for Mexican children in Taxco, but in 1934 the couple moved to Bennington, Vermont when Hirsch accepted a teaching position at Bennington College. Hirsch taught at the Art Students League from 1940 to 1946, and was chairman of the art department at Bard College from 1946 until the 1950s.
Early in his career, Hirsch experimented with Cubism, but by the mid-1920s he was recognized as a Precisionist painter. Hirsh painted many industrial landscapes which were commentaries on the social and physical alienation of modern urban and industrial life. His Southwestern paintings emphasize the austerity of the desert landscape. In 1938, Hirsh won a Federal Art Project commission for a mural in the Federal Courthouse in Aiken, South Carolina. Justice as Protector and Avenger proved highly controversial because the central female figure representing justice was painted in slightly dark skin tones, and the judge was outraged at the
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Taos Painters: Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Frederic Remington was born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York to a prominent family. He was related to Western portrait artist George Catlin and cowboy sculptor Earl W. Bascom. Frederic grew up during the Civil War hearing epics from his father of his life in the cavalry. His early attempts at art were drawing and sketching soldiers in uniform on horseback. It was also the influence of his father's newspaper business that taught Remington how to capture a story to illustrate his romantic version of the West and its struggles.
From a very young age he was drawn to the West and enjoying the great outdoors hunting, fishing and hiking. Remington's father expected Frederic to earn a college degree, so in 1878 he enrolled at Yale's School of Fine Arts. His father passed away a year and a half into his studies, and at that time he went to Montana to try out life on a ranch. He only lasted two months before he left there and used a small inheritance to buy a sheep ranch in Kansas. That endeavor lasted only about a year, and Remington married his childhood sweetheart, Eva Adele Caten, in 1884 and moved to Kansas City to invest in a hardware store and a saloon.
Frederic Remington Tomahawk from Deer Antler Ink on Paper
Frederic Remington, Tomahawk from Deer Antler, Ink on Paper, 9
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Taos Painters: Joe Beeler, CA (1931-2006)
Joe Beeler was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1931. Part Cherokee, Beeler's connection to the west began to be realized artistically at an early age. As a child, he drew often, and continued to develop artistically in college at Kansas State Teachers College before being accepted at and attending the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, CA.
Joe Beeler charcoal drawing Trading Horses cowboy artists of america
Joe Beeler, Trading Horses, Charcoal on Paper, c. 1960-70, 16
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