Ernest Leonard Blumenschein1874-1960, a artist, was a charter member of the Taos Society of Artists and part of the Taos art colony which from 1898 was an important part of the life of Taos, New Mexico.
Blumenschein was one of the originators of a distinctive style of American art called Western art.
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Blumenschein came back nearly every summer until 1919, when he, his wife, artist Mary Greene Blumenschein, and daughter Helen purchased the 1797 structure for their permanent home.
Blumenschein and Phillips were instrumental in establishing the famous Taos Society of Artists.
The Blumenschein Home and Museum is maintained much as it was when the artist and his family were alive.
Blumenschein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to parents of German descent, and raised in Dayton, Ohio.
Blumenschein and Greene married in 1905, to the consternation of her friends, who thought that a prominent painter should not be marrying an illustrator, and that it would damage Greene’s career.
Blumenschein remained in Taos for the rest of his life, though at one point he began to spend winters in Albuquerque, where it was not quite as cold.
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