The Taos Art Colony is an art colony which began in 1898 with the visit of Bert G. Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein to Taos, New Mexico. An art colony is a place where artists live and work, interacting with one another, often creating a distinctive style. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Bert Geer Phillips was one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists and a part of the Taos art colony. ... Ernest Leonard Blumenschein 1874-1960, 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. ... Taos (IPA: ) is a city in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico. ...

An article with drawings by Blumenschein about a ceremony at Taos Pueblo appeared in the July 10, 1898 issue of Harper's Weekly. Within a few years other artists joined them in Taos: Joseph H. Sharp, W. Herbert Dunton, E. Irving Couse, and Oscar E. Berninghaus. These six artists were the charter members of the Taos Society of Artists. Taos Pueblo, circa 1920 Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos), continuously inhabited for over 1000 years, is the ancient town of the Northern Tiwa speaking tribe of Pueblo people, Native Americans. ... July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Joseph Henry Sharp was perhaps the first artist to discover Taos, New Mexico visiting in 1883. ... William Herbert Buck Dunton 1878-1936 was an artist who was one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists and part of the Taos art colony. ... Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936) was an artist who was one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists and part of the Taos art colony in Taos, New Mexico. ... Oscar Edmund Berninghaus 1874-1952 was an artist who was one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and part of the Taos art colony in Taos, New Mexico. ...

Many artists were drawn to Taos due to the presence of Mabel Dodge Luhan, an heiress who had run a prominent art salon in Florence, Italy and Manhattan, New York before settling in Taos, where she married a Pueblo man and built a house. For decades, she invited artists, writers, and other creative people to stay with her in Taos. Many stayed and Taos grew as an art colony. Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan, née Ganson (February 26, 1879 - August 13, 1962) was a wealthy American patron of the arts, and a key figure in the Greenwich Village community in the years 1912 – 1916. ... A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horaces definition of the aims of poetry, to... Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy, on the Arno River, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... The Zia symbol is on the New Mexico state flag. ...

Taos is an artistic center and has many art galleries and museums including the home that Luhan built. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ...

External links

• Official site
• http://billrane.com/ Website of Taos artist Bill Rane}