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Taos Painters: George Elbert Burr (1859-1939)
George Elbert Burr moved from his birthplace of Monroe Falls, Ohio to Cameron, Missouri when he was ten years old. His father opened a hardware store and George, using the rail pass purchased for buying trips, began traveling around the region to sketch the landscape. He began to make etchings on scraps of zinc while still employed at the hardware store and, in December of 1878, enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago.
George E. Burr Summer Clouds Apache Trail Arizona Etching
George E. Burr, Summer Clouds - Apache Trail, Arizona, Etching, 8
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Taos Painters: Harry Cassie Best (1863 - 1936)
Harry Cassie Best was born in Mount Pleasant near Petersboro, Canada in 1863. As a young man, Harry and his brother Arthur traveled around the countryside of Oregon and California earning a living by playing instruments in a band. In 1887 Harry was inspired to become an artist by seeing the beauty of the changing seasons of Mt. Hood in Oregon.
When the band broke up, Best moved to San Francisco in the 1890's with his brother, who also was an aspiring artist. They both studied painting with Alfred Rodriquez. He also worked on improving his cartooning ability, as he had been encouraged to do by cartoonist Homer Davenport whom he met while he still lived in Oregon. Harry started submitting political cartoons to the San Francisco newspapers in 1891, and eventually worked for five years as a cartoonist. Harry's brother Arthur started the
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Taos Painters: Frank Reed Whiteside (1866-1929)
Frank Whiteside was born in 1866 in Philadelphia. From 1888-1892 studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Thomas Anschutz, and then went to Paris to study at the Academie Julian with Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.
Now an established portrait painter, he moved his studio in 1902 into the former studio space of Robert Henri and William Glackens. He began to teach art in public and private schools such as the Pennsylvania Academy. He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Whiteside spent many summers painting the landscape in and around Ogunquit, Maine, a thriving artist colony where his family had a vacation home.
Between 1890 and 1920 he toured and painted many places in California and the Southwest. He spent an extended period of time living with and painting the Zuni Indians in New Mexico, and painting the Apache and Hopis in Arizona. His first-hand interpretation of the culture and lifestyle of the Native Americans enabled him to establish a successful reputation with Eastern collectors eager for this subject matter.
Unfortunately Whiteside's life was cut short in 1929 when he was shot to death by an unknown assailant while answering the front door. After a memorial tribute at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Whiteside's work was nearly forgotten until 1971 when the Phoenix Art Museum showed a retrospective of his work called,
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Taos Painters: Charles Frederick Surendorf (1906 - 1979)
Charles Surendorf painted regionalist style oils and watercolors, but is best known for his large output of wood and linoleum engravings.
Surendorf was born in Richmond, Indiana and received his art training at the Chicago Art Institute, the Art Students League, and Ohio State University. He left the Midwest in 1929, living in Los Angeles before settling in San Francisco in 1935. He became active in the Bay Area art community, attending classes at Mills College and organizing the first San Francisco Art Festival in 1946.
Charles Surendorf Mississippi House Oil on Board painting
Charles Surendorf, Mississippi House, Oil on Board, 16
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Taos Painters: Nellie Augusta Knopf (1875 - 1962)
Born in Chicago, Knopf studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel and Frederick Freer, graduating in 1900. That same year she joined the faculty of the Illinois Women's College at Jacksonville (now MacMurray College.) She received her doctorate from the College in 1935, and continued to teach there until 1943. From 1910 to 1917 Knopf spent summers studying with Charles Woodbury in Ogunguit, Maine. She also studied with Birger Sandzen at the Broadmoor Academy.
Knopf began making summer painting trips in the West in 1921. She used two sabbaticals in 1923-1924 and 1941-1942 to visit California, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas and Colorado. She went to Glacier National Park during the summers of 1925 and 1926, and in later years traveled to Mexico. After retiring, Knopf moved to Lansing, Michigan and later to Eaton Rapids, Michigan.
Knopf primarily painted landscape views in oil, working in a modernist style with loose brush work. She exhibited her paintings extensively including such venues as the Corcoran Gallery, National Academy of Design, Kansas City Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1987 MacMurray College held a major retrospective of Knopf's work.
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Taos Painters: Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864-1939)
Dawson Dawson-Watson was born in the rather fashionable London suburb of St. John's Wood to the popular English Illustrator John Dawson-Watson. Enrolling in Diocesan Grammer School in Southsea at the age of eight, Dawson-Watson's progress in his art classes was terrific and, by the age of fourteen, he was so far ahead of the rest of class in painting live models that he branched out into china decoration to keep himself interested.
It was around this time that he met Mark Fisher, an American artist living in the UK. The two became inseparable, and Fisher began teaching Dawson Dawson-Watson the finer points of oil painting. Having shown great promise in local shows, Dawson-Watson was sponsored by a local brewer to train in Paris under Carolus Duran, John Singer Sargent's teacher. Having become quite taken with France, his next stop was Giverny, where he would live the next five years, only a short way from the home of Claude Monet (though Dawson-Watson claimed the two never met).
An American friend convinced Dawson Dawson-Watson to move the United States, and he was hired as the Director of the Hartford Art Society in Connecticut. After four years in the position he quit to return to England, but soon found himself States-bound again and eventually living at Byrdcliffe Colony, a center for the American Arts and Crafts movement. After Byrdcliffe, Dawson-Watson moved to St. Louis, where he taught at the School of Fine Arts for eleven years.
Dawson Dawson-Watson's connection to the West began in St. Louis, where he served as the art director of a pageant in Brandesville Missouri, putting him in contact with wealthy Texans who would eventually persuade him to move to San Antonio. Spurred on by his success in the Edgar B. Davis National Competition, whose $5,000 prize (the largest in the nation at the time) he won three years running, Dawson-Watson branched out in his subject matter and began painting numerous canvases of desert flora, mostly cacti. Cacti led to landscapes and landscapes, eventually, brought him to the Grand Canyon, the subject of many of his best late works.
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Taos Painters: Homer Dean Boss (1882-1956)
Born in Blandford, Massachusetts, Homer Boss pursued art from a very young age. His family moved to Springfield, MA in the 1890s. Boss worked there as a die setter for Moore Drop Forge, but left for New York City in 1900 to find art training.
In New York he studied at the New York School of Art, which was formerly known as the Chase School after William Merritt Chase who joined the faculty in 1902. Boss also studied with Thomas Anschutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia.
Also joining the faculty of the New York School of Art in 1902 was Robert Henri (1865-1929). In 1909, Henri established his own school of art, named the Henri School of Art. Homer was one of the
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