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Taos Painters: Jessie Benton Steese Evans (1866 - 1954)
Considered one of the most important Arizona artists of the early twentieth century, Jessie Benton Evans is known for her brightly colored desert landscapes.
Evans was born in Uniontown, Ohio and studied at Oberlin College. Having moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute, she met and married Denver Evans, a successful Chicago businessman. After giving birth to her only child in 1888, Evans completed her course of study with John Vanderpoel, Lawton Parker, and briefly with William Merritt Chase.
Over a period of several years, Evans took her son on extended trips to Europe where she studied informally with artists in Venice, Florence, Verona, Naples, Rome, and Paris. She exhibited in the Paris Salons of 1911 and 1912 and was a member of the Societe des Artists. Between 1905 and 1925 she exhibited here landscape and genre paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago's annual exhibitions. Evans was a member of the Chicago Art Club and the Chicago Society of Artists.
In 1913 Evans moved to Scottsdale, Arizona for health reasons, although she maintained her Chicago studio at least until 1920. She quickly grew to love the Sonoran Desert, saying she found in it a
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Taos Painters: Carl Adolph Hjalmer Persson Redin (1892-1944)
Carl Redin was born near Stockholm, Sweden June 15, 1892. He began to study art while he was still in Stockholm, however he immigrated to America in 1913 to find a better way to support his impoverished family. Initially he went to Chicago where he did varnishing and enameling for a building contractor. But he contracted tuberculosis and needed a drier climate for his health, so he moved to New Mexico in 1916.
Carl Redin Oil Painting Adobe Casa with Chilies
Carl Redin, Adobe Casa with Chilies, Oil on Canvas mounted on Panel, 12
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