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TAOS SOCIETY OF ARTISTS (1915-1927).....At its zenith, the TSA included the following members: .... Joseph Henry Sharp....... Bert G. Phillips, E. Irving Couse...William H. Dunton... Oscar Berninghaus ...Ernest Blumenschein...Kenneth Adams....Victor Higgins, E. Martin Hennings, Catharine C. Critchen and Walter Ufer..........Associate Members included Gustave Baumann, Robert Henri, John Sloan, B.J.O, Nordfeldt and....Birger Sandzen.

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THE TAOS MODERNS.....The birth of Abstract Expressionism and the social disruptions of World War II helped energize the New Mexico village of Taos, creating an exciting center of American Modernist art in the 1940s and 1950s and a group of abstract artists who came to be known collectively as the Taos Moderns.....Beatrice Mandelman (1912 - 1998) and her husband Louis Ribak (1902 - 1979).... Paul Burlin (1886–1969).... Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979).......

.....Georgia O'Keeffe.... John Marin. ... Richard Diebenkorn....Dorothy Brett....Agnes Martin..... Gene Kloss..... Barbara Latham.....Florence Pierce (1919-2007)......

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TRANSCENDENTALIST PAINTING GROUP founded in 1938 by Raymond Jonson (1891–1982), ....Emil Bistram............. William Lumpkins

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LOS CINCO PINTORES.....consisted of five painters who moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1920s and established Santa Fe as a famous art colony. They were Josef Bakos, Will Shuster, Walter Mruk......Willard Nash..... and Fremont Ellis.....the Cinco Pintores believed in experimenting freely with modernist painting methods and led colorful, wild lifestyles that flew in the face of conservative, prohibition-era Santa Fe society.....Known as "five little nuts in five adobe huts,"

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THE TAOS SIX..........formed in the early 1970s by artists Ron Barsano.... ROBERT DAUGHTERS....Rod Goebel, Walt Gonske, Julian Robles, and Ray Vinella, is the last local Taos “movement” I’m aware of. That makes it the end—temporarily, perhaps—of a tradition dating back to the Taos Society of Artists (1915-1927).

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LA CONTRADIA.......A group of Hispanic artists, formed in 1978 to show their own work outside of the established Santa Fe "art scene," from which they felt excluded.....Luis Tapia is a self-taught, contemporary artist. Like many in his generation who grew up during a time of cultural homogenization—as well as the emergence of movements for civil rights and social consciousness—Tapia was determined to learn more about his culture....he helped found La Confradia de Artes y Artesanos Hispanicos, which has been instrumental in the contemporary revival of Southwest art...... Frederico Vigil

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PUEBLO INDIAN PAINTERS.......(Pre-1920).......

Velino Shije Herrera [Ma Pe Wi] (1902-1973) ....Fred Kabotie (Naqavoy’ma) (1900-86) ....Crescencio Martinez (T’ae)(1879-1918)..... TONITA PENA.... [Quah Ah] (1893-1949) ....Otis Polelonema (Hopi...1902-81)......Alfonso Roybal [Awa Tsireh] (1898-1955) ....Abel Sanchez (Oqwa Pi)(1899-1971)....

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PUEBLO PAINTERS......(Post 1920)

Juan Chamon (Jemez..1900-63)....Luis Gonzales (Wo-Peen...San Ildefonso)...Cipriano Chavez (Cochiti (1892-?)...Julian Martinez....(Po Ca No...San Ildefonso...1885-1943)....Alfredo Martinez...San Ildefonso....Richard Martinez.......Pablita Velarde (1918-2006) Santa Clara Pueblo .... .... Helen Hardin...... .... Tomas Vigil...[Tesuque.....Pan-Yo-Pin] (1889-1960) ....Romando Vigil [Tse Ye Mu] (1902-1978) .........Riley Sunrise....(Hopi).......Waldo Mootzka.....(Hopi..1903-40)...Awa Tsireh....Oqwa Pi.......Dario Chevarillo....Albert Looking Elk.....

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NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS...... Awa Tsireh .... Ben Quintana (1923-1944) Cochiti Pueblo .... Harrison Begay.... Gilbert Atencio [Wah Peen] (1930-1995) .... J. D. Roybal [Oquwa] (1922-1978) ... Joe Hilario Herrera (1923-?) .... Justino Herrera [Stimone] (b. 1920) .... Roxanne Swentzell.... Patrick Swazo-Hinds (1929-1974) .... Popovi Da Martinez .... Sheldon Harvey.... Santana Martinez (1909-2002)....... Waldo Mootzka (1910-1940), Hopi

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KATSINA CARVERS.....Hopi & Tewa

Damon Adams....Michael Adams....Ronald Adams Sr.....Robert Allison....Brent T. Brokeshoulder....Randy Brokeshoulder...Norman Cuch....John David Sr.....Loren J. David....Jonathan Day Sr.....Earl Denet.....Daniel Dewakuku....Wally Grover....Robert Harris Sr.....Carlon G. Harvey....Alfred Holmes....Edward Honyestewa....Orlan R. Honyumptewa... Stetson Honyumptewa.....Leon Koruh....Vernon Laban....Alfred Lomahquahu Jr. “Bo”....Cliffton Lomayaktewa....Clinton Lucas....Benjamin Mahle....Lawrence Mahle Jr..... Ernest Moore....Willard Mowa....Marcus Nahee....Bert Nahsonhoya....Troy D. Nash....Wallace “Wally” Navasie....Delano C. Nuvayestewa....Rudeford Poleahla Sr.....Tayron Polequaptewa......... Orin Poley Jr.....Garren Poocha....Sidney Poolheco....Lester Quanimptewa....Kevin Secakuku....Ralph Sekaquaptewa....Gary Shupla....George Silas....Stacey Talahytewa....Eli Taylor....Clark Tenakhongva....Eddison L. Torivio Jr.....Floyd Torivio Jr.....Lindred Torivio....Keith A. Torres....Bertram Tsavadawa....Buddy Tubinaghtewa....Danny Gene Walker....Alexander R. Youvella Sr.....Celestino Youvella....Preston Youvella

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NAVAJO RUGS......

Classic Period (prior to 1868).....Classic wearing blanket.....First Phase Chief's Blanket.....Second Phase Chief's Blanket.....Third Phase Chief's Blanket  

Transitional Period (1868 to 1900-10)....Germantown Eyedazzler

Rug Period (1900 to 1930)......Crystal......Ganado Rug

Revival Period (1930's to 1950)....Wide Ruins....Crystal

Modern Period (post WWII)... Ganado, Two Grey Hills, Teec Nos Pos.... Burntwater.... Newlands....Storm

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PUEBLO ARTS.....PATRONS and PROMOTERS....

Edgar Lee Hewitt......Mary Austin......Charles F. Lummis.....Mabel Dodge Luhan...Elizabeth DeHuff.....

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