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.
The Taos Society of Artists was an organization of visual arts founded in Taos, New Mexico. Established in 1915, it was disbanded in 1927. The Society was essentially a commercial cooperative, as opposed to a stylistic collective, and its foundation contributed to the development of the tiny Taos art colony into an international art center.
Taos Pueblo, Joseph Henry Sharp, 1893 illustration for Harper's Weekly
E. Irving Couse, The Historian, 1902
E. Irving Couse, Lovers (Indian Love Song), 1905
E. Irving Couse, Contentment, 1918