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Taos Ski Valley Vacation Rental - Taos New Mexico
Stay in the most beautiful ski in ski out condo on the mountain in a full service exclusive building with gym, restaurant bar, game room (pool and foosball), spa, yoga room, demo shop, ski storage heated boot room and parking on the premises. The condo has all radiant hard wood and limestone floors, two king bedrooms with Tempur-Pedic mattresses, fine linens, towels and robes, two full limestone baths and an extremely well and fully equipped kitchen, and furnished in exquisite top of the line mid-century modern furniture from Knoll, Design Within Reach and Herman Miller. In addition to the two king beds there are two twin roll out ottomans.
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Taos Painters: Jack van Ryder (1899-1968)
Jack van Ryder is one of the most colorful American artists of the twentieth century, with a body of work whose authenticity is unassailable in the face of the life from which his images were culled. A cowboy, painter, illustrator, map-maker, soldier, rancher and Hollywood set designer, Jack van Ryder's talent seemingly knew no bounds.
Jack van Ryder Saguaro and Rising moon oil painting
Jack van Ryder, Saguaro and Rising Moon, Oil on canvas, 20
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Tao's
Tao's is a happy center for the art life management according to the wisdom of the east. It is located on the beautiful Greek Island of Paros. Our Program list include daily open activities: Zazen, Tai-Chi & Zorba section. Ongoing workshops, which you can register to, Dharma talk & Specials. Fascinating content in our magazine and recommended Items. We invite you to join our community. Enjoy visiting us!
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Taos Painters: Anna Elizabeth (Wilton) Keener (1895 - 1982)
Anna Elizabeth Keener (Mrs. Louis Raymond Wilton) was born in Flagler, Colorado in 1895, but spent most of her childhood in Dalhart, Texas. The beginning of a long career in academics began with first earning a BFA and BA degree from Bethany College in Linsborg, Kansas. During this time she attended summer sessions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. At Bethany College she was also an assistant to Birger Sandzen, who was at that time a professor of block printing. She later referred to him as one of her most important teachers.
During WWI Keener served as a clerk for the Navy in Detroit and took evening classes at the Detroit School of Design. When the war ended she taught public school in Arizona and Kansas, attending evening classes at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1923. That same year she authored the book, Spontaneity in Design. In 1925 she moved to Alpine, Texas to teach art classes for the next two years at Sul Ross State Teachers College. She then moved briefly back to Dalhart before moving to New Mexico to teach school in Red River, Ojo Caliente, Las Vegas and Gallup. She painted a mural in Gallup at the McKinley County Courthouse. nne's next destination was Mexico City in 1941 where she studied and painted before moving to Portales, New Mexico as the head of the art department oat Eastern New Mexico University - a position she held for twelve years. During this time she was also taking classes from Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley. In 1951 she received her Masters of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She went back to Mexico City in 1953 for more studies. In 1954 when she retired from Eastern New Mexico University, she moved to Santa Fe and actively began jurying exhibitions and painting her own art. She eventually held memberships in the Art of America Society, American Federation of Arts, American Artists Professional League, International Institute of Arts and Letters, National and New Mexico Art Education Associations, Southern States Art League and Western Art Association.
In 1962 she studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. She was one of the organizers of the New Mexico Arts Commission and a member of Artists Equity, Inc. working for legislation to establish a National Council of the Arts. She died in Santa Fe in 1982.
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Taos Painters: Robert Macfie Scriver, CA (1914-1999)
Bob Scriver was born in 1914 on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation at Browning, Montana. His parents were Anglophones from Quebec who operated the Browning Mercantile Company. His upbringing amidst stories from the Blackfoot elders and the wild tales of the West from the frontiersmen, caused Scriver to have a rich collection of memories to draw from for the rest of his artistic life.
But early on his focus was music. After high school he studied music education at Dickinson State College in North Dakota, Vander Cook College of Music in Chicago, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and the University of Washington in Seattle. He then taught for many years at Browning High School and in the Montana Public Schools. He was the first-chair cornet in the Alaskan Division during WWII when he was stationed in Edmonton, Alberta. He also played in dance bands in the 1930-40s.
While studying at VanderCook, Scriver became interested in taxidermy from his frequent visits to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. By 1950 he gave up his teaching position to become a full-time taxidermist. He enjoyed the success he experienced in sculpting the animal forms for his taxidermy work and went on to experiment with other forms of sculpture. His entry into a competition to create a life-size statue of Charles M. Russell was not a winner, but made him realize his true calling. From then on he focused entirely on sculpting.
In 1961, Scriver opened his first exhibition at his studio in Browning. It was very successful and National recognition soon followed. In the mid-60s he opened his own bronze studio and by 1967 was casting his own series of rodeo characters. In the 1970s his focus was a series about the culture and traditions of the Blackfeet people that he was so familiar with from his childhood on. This was the most successful of his sculpting work.
Beginning sculpting at the age of 46, he continued to create sculpture for the next nearly forty years, becoming one of the country's major chroniclers of Western history. He was awarded gold and silver medals by the Cowboy Artists of America and the National Academy of Western Art. He was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the International Art Guild, the Salmagundi Club and the Society of Animal Artists. From the late 1950s through the end of the twentieth century, visitors to the Glacier National Park area were treated to Bob Scriver's
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Taos Painters: William Howard Shuster (1893-1969)
Born in Philadelphia in November of 1893, Will Shuster studied to be an electrical engineer while at the same time pursuing his interest in art. He worked for the Curtis Publishing Company and met someone there who suggested Shuster meet artist William Server. He started to study sketching with Server and soon was spending every spare moment learning from him. But WWI came and Shuster was sent overseas as a First Lieutenant of infantry. While there he was gassed and became very ill. He developed tuberculosis and was given only about a year to live. The other option was to move to a dry place like the southwest and hope to last awhile longer.
So on March 3, 1920 Will arrived in Santa Fe. It was there he met John Sloan and started studying with him which began a life-long friendship between the two. He also met the four other artists who would become with him Los Cinco Pintores (The Five Painters). They were Jozef Bakos, Willard Nash, Fremont Ellis and Walter Mruk. The five young men (all in their twenties) started this group in 1921, which became the foundation of the
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