Ernest L. Blumenschein
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Ernest Leonard Blumenschein was an American artist and founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico and the American Southwest.
Haystack, Taos Valley, before 1927. Oil on canvas. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
The accident that started the Taos art colony, 1898.
Ernest and Mary Blumenschein, New York, 1910.
Taos, New Mexico
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Taos is a town in Taos County, in the north-central region of New Mexico. Situated between the Rio Grande Gorge and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, it is located roughly 50 miles south of the Colorado
Ernest L. Blumenschein
…became friends with Bert Phillips and the older and more experienced artist Joseph Henry Sharp, who told the two younger artists about his 1893 visit to Taos, New Mexico. Blumenschein returned to New York in 1896, to work as an illustrator in a studio shared with Bert Phillips. In early 1898, he took an assignment that…
Taos Plaza and the Hotel La Fonda, within the Taos Downtown Historic District
Old cemetery and ruins of original church, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Fray Pedro de Miranda, the Taos mission priest, was killed in 1640.
Taos Pueblo
E.L. Blumenschein House Library, National Register of Historical Places