MASTERWORKS OF THE TAOS FOUNDERS [SOLD]

MASTERWORKS OF THE TAOS FOUNDERS

An Exhibition of Paintings presented by The Museum of Art of the American West and The Gerald Peters Collection

September 10 through November 25, 1984, Houston, Texas

7000 copies of this catalog were printed on Cameo paper using Packard type, copyright 1984

44 color plates, 92 pages, soft cover.

This exhibition, Masterworks of the Taos Founders, was a rare opportunity in which fine American art and the romantic history of the West were combined into one dynamic showing.  The artists who founded the Taos Society in the early 1900s were perhaps not completely aware of what their simple act of unification would accomplish for art in America.  These first members not only proclaimed a deep friendship for one another, but also stated a simple ethic that was to establish forevermore a tradition in American art. Their goal was to inspire an ever increasing standard of quality for art and to aid the understanding of art in general.

The founders of the Taos Society were successful not only as artists, but also as men of inspiration.  The exhibition that this catalogue represents is but a part of their legacy to American art; the rest is found today in the studios and workshops of Taos, New Mexico where their inspiration lives on.

Artists Included in the exhibition and illustrated in this catalog

Joseph Henry Sharp

Bert Geer Phillips

Ernest L. Blumenschein

E. Irving Couse

W. Herbert Dunton

Walter Ufer

Victor Higgins

E. Martin Hennings

Kenneth M. Adams