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1923
The second oldest art museum in New Mexico
The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos was founded in 1923 by the Harwood Foundation and is the second oldest art museum in New Mexico. In 1935 the University of New Mexico purchased it. Since then the property has been expanded to include an auditorium, a library and more exhibition space.
Hispanic works
Carved chests, tin lanterns and santos from New Mexico
Furniture was too expensive to ship from Mexico City, so New Mexicans set up carpentry shops in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to make carved chests and cupboards. Tin cans, glass panes and religious prints were made into devotional objects. The Harwood has the largest publicly owned collection of secular works by Patrociño Barela.
1915
The Taos Society of Artists was formed in 1915
The Taos Society of Artists, inspired by the Taos Pueblo people and the Taos landscape, was formed in 1915 by European trained artists including Joseph Henry Sharp, Ernest L. Blumenschein and E. Irving Couse. They sent traveling shows of their work across the United States. The society disbanded in 1927.
Taos Moderns
By the 1950s Taos was a major center for modern art
In the 1940s a group of artists, some of them studying under the G.I. bill, came to Taos with influences from European and American modern art. By the 1950s Taos had become one of the major centers for modern art in the country. They became known as the Taos Moderns, and Agnes Martin was among them.
Easy Rider
Dennis Hopper came to Taos to finish Easy Rider
A new generation of artists arrived in the 1960s and 1970s when Dennis Hopper came to Taos to complete the final rough cut of Easy Rider. He stayed, bought the Mabel Dodge Luhan property and, like her, encouraged artists, musicians and celebrities to visit him in Taos.
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