Oscar E. Berninghaus
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Oscar Edmund Berninghaus was an American artist, a co-founder of the Society of Ozark Painters, and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He is best known for his paintings of Native Ameri
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Border Gateways, by Oscar E. Berninghaus (1937) depicting immigrants arriving in Kansas territory following the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Mural is located on the second floor of the Fort Scott, Kansas Federal Courthouse.
Bert Geer Phillips
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Bert Geer Phillips was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He settled in what was then Taos, New Mexico Territory and was a founder of the Taos art colony. He is k
Oscar E. Berninghaus
…the train car. When he passed nearby Taos, New Mexico, he disembarked the train and travelled overland. During his 8-day stay, he met and befriended Bert Phillips, who had established himself as a painter in Taos the previous year. Although he soon returned to St. Louis, and was married to Emelia Miller in 1900…
Bert Phillips portrait
The accident that started the Taos art colony, 1898.