Taos Moderns: Art of the New

Witt, David L.

Santa Fe: Red Crane Books, 1992. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; lavendar dust jacket with color illustration on front cover; xv, 120 pp, 42 unnumbered pages of plates; illustrated throughout in bw and color. VG-/VG- (light foxing to upper block, pages are otherwise clean. Light wear to dust jacket). Item #180551
ISBN: 9781878610164

"This study focuses on those artists who created a substantial body of work in Taos between the mid-1940s and the early 1960s. Sixty or more artists who identified themselves as modernists, or as being influenced by modernism in art, lived in Taos during this period. A representative group of them are featured in this book"--Page 3 Contents include: Chronology -- The time and the place -- The newcomers and the Aspen painters -- The artists -- Plates -- Appendix A. Additional artists -- Appendix B. The rise and fall of the Stables Gallery. Artists: Andrew Dasburg (1887-1979) -- Cady Wells (1904-1954) -- Thomas Benrimo (1887-1958) -- Louis Ribak (1903-1979) -- Beatrice Mandelman -- Earl Stroh (born 1924) -- Agnes Martin (born 1912) -- Oli Sihvonen (1921-1991) -- Ted Egri (born 1913) -- Louise Ganthiers (1907-1982) -- Clay Spohn (1898-1977) -- Edward Corbett (1919-1971) -- John Depuy (born 1927) -- Robert D. Ray (born 1924).