Books from Gerald Peters Gallery: Santa Fe Art Colony

“The Santa Fe Art Colony was a loose-knit association of artists that flourished in the early part of the twentieth century and helped to forge a robust regional art movement. As compared to the more traditional Taos Society of Artists farther north or the art academies back East, Santa Fe offered a greater sense of artistic and political freedom for many younger painters . . Some of the founding members of the colony who arrived from the East in the early years – Marsden Hartley, Andrew Dasburg, Robert Henri and John Sloan for example – came with previously established reputations and helped lend credence to the colony. Some of the younger, less established artists who came after 1920 – Albert Schmidt, Raymond Jonson or the artists known as Los Cinco Pintores (Willard Nash, Fremont Ellis, Will Shuster, Josef Bakos and Walter Mruk) – helped to democratize and modernize the art scene here. These trailblazers gave depth to the colony and did much to establish it as a haven for individual expression.”

-Catherine Whitney

Softcover  |  Essay by Sharon R. Udall  |  127 pages  |  Color Plates  |  $25

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