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Taos Painters: Agnes Gabrielle Tait (1894-1981)
Born in Greenwich Village, New York, Agnes Tait enrolled in the National Academy of Design at age 14, eventually becoming a student of Leon Kroll. She first exhibited her painting at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1914 and participated in major exhibitions throughout her career at such institutions as the Corcoran Gallery, the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Los Angeles County Museum. Her first solo exhibition took place at New Yorks Ferargil Galleries in 1932.
Restless by nature, Tait traveled frequently to paint commissions or to gather inspiration for her own work. She made her first trip to Europe in 1927 to study lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1930 she received a commission from the United Fruit Company to paint genre scenes and portraits of the people of Haiti and Jamaica. Exotic imagesparticularly tropical scenesbecame a common theme in her work as she traveled in Mexico, the Caribbean, and southern Europe.
In 1934 Tait became an employee of the Public Works of Art Project. She produced some of her best-known works during the Depression era including the frequently reproduced painting Skating in Central Park, a set of murals for Belleview Hospital in New York, and a series of lithographic projects.
In 1941 Tait and her journalist husband, William McNulty, moved to Santa Fe where she added southwestern imagery to her repertoire of figure, landscape and genre paintings and lithographs. She became a member of the Prairie Print Makers which had close ties to Santa Fe and Taos. During her forty years in Santa Fe, Tait added childrens book illustration to her list of accomplishments. Among her book projects were Heidi in 1947 and Pacos Miracle in 1961.
Agnes Taits work is now included in such museums as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and Museum of New Mexico Art.
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Taos Painters: Elliot Bouton Torrey (1867 - 1949)
Elliot Torrey was an impressionist painter best known for seascapes and portraits of children.
Born in East Hardwick, Vermont, Torrey graduated from Bowdoin College with an M.A. in 1890. After further study at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Paris and Florence, he established a studio in Boston. In the first decade of the twentieth century Torrey returned to Paris for several years, studying and showing his work. He returned to the U.S. in 1911, opening a studio in New York. In 1923 he moved to Pasadena, California where he spent four years before settling permanently in San Diego. He directed the WPA art project there in 1933-34.
Torrey was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Society of Independent Artists, Boston Art Club, and Contemporary Artists of San Diego.
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Taos Painters: Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858-1949)
Elbridge Ayer Burbank was born in Harvard, IL in 1858. After studying at the Chicago Art Academy, he received a commission to illustrate Northwest magazine, essentially an advertisement published to encourage homesteading. The traveling entailed in finishing this commission brought Burbank through Montana, Idaho and Washington, and fostered a profound appreciation for the American West in him.
E. A. Burbank oil painting Mission San Juan Capistrano of California
E. A. Burbank, Mission San Juan Capistrano of California, Circa 1895-1900, Oil on Canvas on Board, 4
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Taos Painters: James Swinnerton (1875-1974)
Few western artists can claim the level of success in multiple fields of James Swinnerton. A painter, illustrator and pioneering cartoonist, Swinnerton's long life was punctuated by great crises and, perhaps, even better luck.
James Swinnerton's first tragedy was the death of his mother when he was a small child. His grandfather, a rich forty-niner, took him into his home while his father, a writer and judge, founded a newspaper,
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