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
Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo and Hispano communities, including Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, El Prado, and Arroyo Seco. The town was incorporated in 1934. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,716.
Taos Plaza and the Hotel La Fonda, within the Taos Downtown Historic District
Taos Pueblo
E.L. Blumenschein House Library, National Register of Historical Places
Kit Carson gravestone and burial plot