Born in Brooklyn, New York, Joseph Imhof was a self-taught lithographer for Currier and Ives in New York City and then became an important documentary painter of Indian life in New Mexico. He is best... Read full biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Joseph Imhof was a self-taught lithographer for Currier and Ives in New York City and then became an important documentary painter of Indian life in New Mexico. He is best known for a series of sixty paintings focused on the importance of corn in the culture of the... Read full biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Joseph Imhof was a self-taught lithographer for Currier and Ives in New York City and then became an important documentary painter of Indian life in New Mexico. He is best known for a series of sixty paintings focused on the importance of corn in the culture of the Pueblo Indians. In 1891, he went to Europe for four years of formal training and apprenticed to artists in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, and Munich. In Antwerp, he met and sketched Buffalo Bill and his Indians... Read full biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Joseph Imhof was a self-taught lithographer for Currier and Ives in New York City and then became an important documentary painter of Indian life in New Mexico. He is best known for a series of sixty paintings focused on the importance of corn in the culture of the Pueblo Indians. In 1891, he went to Europe for four years of formal training and apprenticed to artists in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, and Munich. In Antwerp, he met and sketched Buffalo Bill and his Indians in the "Wild West Show," which was making a grand tour of Europe. Ironically, it was this experience with Buffalo Bill in Europe that set the direction of his career rather than his exposure to European artists. However, lithography methods he... Read full biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Joseph Imhof was a self-taught lithographer for Currier and Ives in New York City and then became an important documentary painter of Indian life in New Mexico. He is best known for a series of sixty paintings focused on the importance of corn in the culture of the Pueblo Indians. In 1891, he went to Europe for four years of formal training and apprenticed to artists in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, and Munich. In Antwerp, he met and sketched Buffalo Bill and his Indians in the "Wild West Show," which was making a grand tour of Europe. Ironically, it was this experience with Buffalo Bill in Europe that set the direction of his career rather than his exposure to European artists. However, lithography methods he learned in Europe had a life-long influence on his work. Returning to the United States, he studied the Iroquois... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (27)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest (Collection of Billy Schenck)
2003
Clemmer, David
120 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Joseph Imhoff Artist of the Pueblos
1998
Reily, Nancy Hopkins; L Enix
0 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Anschutz Collection
150 pages (color)
The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Bermingham, Peter
67 pages
American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977
Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)
256 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Denver Art Museum
215 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro)
64 pages (color)
The West Remembered (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Baird, Joseph Armstrong
88 pages (color)
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art
1972
Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington
75 pages (color)
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942