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Taos Painters: Julius Rolshoven (1858-1930)
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1858, the son of a German goldsmith, Julius Rolshoven's drawing ability was encouraged by his father to improve his engraving skills. In 1877 he started his studies with Ernst Plassman at the Cooper Union Academy in New York after being denied admission to the National Academy. In 1878 he left for Germany where he studied under Hugo Crola at the Academie of Dusseldorf and the Royal Academy of Munich. In 1882 he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris and then stayed there teaching for the next six years.
Julius Rolshoven - An Invocation Pueblo Tesuque
Julius Rolshoven, An Invocation, Pueblo Tesuque, Oil on Canvas, 1916, 20
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Taos Painters: Conrad Buff (1886-1975)
Conrad Buff specialized in brilliantly colored, abstracted landscape paintings of California and the Southwest.
Buff was born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of a farmer. At age fourteen, he apprenticed with a baker, and later entered trade school to study lace design. After studying briefly in Munich, he emigrated to the United States in 1905, first working in Wisconsin as a sheepherder.
Conrad Buff painting red butte
Conrad Buff, Red Butte, Oil on Board, 23
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Taos Painters: Barbara (Cook) Latham (1896-1976)
Born in Walpole, Massachusetts, Latham became a noted illustrator and painter of Southwest scenes.
She studied at the Norwich Connecticut Art School, in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute, and the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York. Adventurous, especially for a woman of her time, she and a friend bicycled through Brittany gathering material for illustrations.
In 1925, she went to Taos, New Mexico, where she lived with her artist husband, Howard Cook, and painted joyous Southwest landscapes and genre depicting the seasons of rural life. After World War II, her work became more surrealistic. She also became known for her holiday card and children's book illustrations.
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Taos Painters: Dorothy Eugenie Brett (1883-1976)
Dorothy Brett was born into great privilege in Victorian England and went on to become a painter of Native American scenes in Taos, New Mexico.
The daughter of one of Queen Victoria's closest advisors, Brett took art and dance lessons with royalty as a child and eventually went on to study painting at the Slade School of Art and University College, London. A bon vivant and socialite, her paintings were generally portraits of friends and acquaintances, amongst them the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the novelists Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. The Lawrences were dear friends of Brett and, when they accepted an invitation by Mabel Dodge Luhan to visit her in Taos, New Mexico, she came along.
Dorothy Brett two indian profiles
Dorothy Brett, Taos Indians, c. 1942, Oil on panel, 8
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Taos Painters: Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980)
Howard Cook was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. He headed for New York City in 1919 with a $500 scholarship to attend the Art Students League, where he studied for two years with George Bridgman, Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. While he wasn't in class he painted outdoor billboards and worked in lithography and photo-engraving shops. In 1922 he began to work as an illustrator creating his woodcuts and drawings for magazines such as Harper's, Scribner's, Atlantic Monthly, Forum and Survey. His travel for these assignments took him to many places including his first visit to Europe.
Howard Cook etching Taos Plaza
Howard Cook, Taos Plaza, Etching, c. 1926-27, 8
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Taos Painters: Fred Harman Jr. (1902 - 1982)
Although best known as creator of the nationally syndicated Red Ryder comic strip, Fred Harman painted hundreds of scenes of cowboy and Indian life.
Harman was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, but moved with his family to Pagosa Springs in southwestern Colorado as an infant. Young Harman was an unhappy student who preferred to draw and ride horses. He dropped out of school after the seventh grade and worked as a cowboy in the Four Corners region where he met and befriended members of the Navajo, Ute and Apache tribes.
Harman's widowed father moved the family to Kansas City in 1920 and, for a short time, Fred drew cartoons for the Kansas City Star. Around 1922 he was drawing advertising slides for the Kansas City Filmad Company, working alongside another aspiring cartoonist named Walt Disney. Harman and Disney formed their own animation company, Kaycee Studios, but it folded after about a year. Disney then opened another studio and hired Harman's younger brother Hugh. Fred drifted back to St. Joseph where his family had maintained close ties. In 1924 he was working there for an engraving company, illustrating western wear catalogues. He also did illustrations for a book on the Pony Express and designed sets for the silent film, The Pony Express, released in 1925. He interspersed these jobs with stints as a cowboy back in Colorado.
Fred Harman drawing cowboy artists of america
Fred Harman, Jr., Drawing, Colored Pencil on Paper, 8
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