A founder in 1898 of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early paintings were... Read full biography
A founder in 1898 of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early paintings were Impressionistic, "suffused with color and light". (Gerdts 254) . He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and... Read full biography
A founder in 1898 of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early paintings were Impressionistic, "suffused with color and light". (Gerdts 254) . He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and developed an interest in art through his family's lithography business. He attended night classes at the St. Louis School of Fine Art. In 1898, he was on an illustration assignment for "McClure's"... Read full biography
A founder in 1898 of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early paintings were Impressionistic, "suffused with color and light". (Gerdts 254) . He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and developed an interest in art through his family's lithography business. He attended night classes at the St. Louis School of Fine Art. In 1898, he was on an illustration assignment for "McClure's" magazine, which took him for the first of many times into New Mexico and Arizona. He had heard of the special beauty of Taos and there met Bert Geer Phillips, who was already a resident, and Phillips invited him to return. This visit began a tradition of... Read full biography
A founder in 1898 of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early paintings were Impressionistic, "suffused with color and light". (Gerdts 254) . He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and developed an interest in art through his family's lithography business. He attended night classes at the St. Louis School of Fine Art. In 1898, he was on an illustration assignment for "McClure's" magazine, which took him for the first of many times into New Mexico and Arizona. He had heard of the special beauty of Taos and there met Bert Geer Phillips, who was already a resident, and Phillips invited him to return. This visit began a tradition of spending the winter months in St. Louis and the summers in Taos. He remained active in both communities, and for many years designed the cos... Read full biography
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951
2009
Katlan, Alexander W.
623 pages
Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest (Collection of Billy Schenck)
2003
Clemmer, David
120 pages (color)
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park
2002
Hassrick, Peter H
248 pages (color)
Gregory Perillo and the Masters of American Western Art
2000
Brodell, James; Peter Occhiogrosso; Louis Zona (foreward)
200 pages (color)
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950
1999
Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie
400 pages (color)
The Majesty of the Grand Canyon 150 Years in Art
1998
Kinsey, Joni Louise
159 pages (color)
Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream
1998
Reaves, William E Jr
92 pages (color)
Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook
1997
Ellis, Robert M. (Director)
48 pages (color)
Selections from Gertrude Vandeveer Spratlen Collection
1997
Schlier, Deborah
63 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
Contested Terrain Myth and Meaning in Southwest Art
1996
Udall, Sharyn R
180 pages (color)
New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995
1996
White, Robert (Editor)
88 pages
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 pages (color)
Paintings of the Southwest
1994
Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell
128 pages
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Leeds, Valerie Ann
72 pages (color)
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth
56 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection
1991
Cunningham, Elizabeth
131 pages (color)
Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway
1991
D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell
147 pages (color)
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
Philbrook Museum of Art Handbook to the Collections
1991
Philbrook Museum of Art
250 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Western American Art
1991
Sweeney, J Gray
239 pages (color)
The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Truettner, William H
386 pages (color)
Art of the Golden West
1990
Axelrod, Alan
418 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Techniques of the Artists of the American West
1990
Samuels, Peggy (others)
252 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989
Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan
304 pages (color)
Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Saunders, Richard H
211 pages (color)
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
Capturing the Canyon: Artists in the Grand Canyon
1987
Mitchem, Holly (Essay); Tray Mead (Editor)
42 pages (color)
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986
Novak, Barbara
326 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 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
Oscar Berninghaus: Master Painter of American Indians and Frontier West
1985
Sanders, Gordon E
140 pages (color)
Masterworks of the Taos Founders (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerald Peters Collection
84 pages (color)
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
Four Centuries of Sporting Art
1984
Schmitt, Victoria Sandwick
165 pages
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
Pioneer Artists of Taos Revised, Expanded
1983
Bickerstaff, Laura
227 pages
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art
1983
Foxley, William
200 pages (color)
The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies Age of The Muses, 1900-1942
1983
Gibson, Arrell Morgan
305 pages
The Gerald Peters Collection A Selection of Paintings
1983
Peters, Gerald
96 pages (color)
The Taos Society of Artists
1983
White, Robert R
126 pages
The Popular West American Illustrators 1900-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Ballinger, James/Susan Gordon
56 pages
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Remington and Russell (plus 9 western painters)
1982
Dippie, Brian W
188 pages (color)
A Western American Vision of Art, History and Work Francis King Collection
1982
Dobbs, Joanne; Jerry A. Schefcik
52 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Santa Fe and Taos 1898-1942 An American Cultural Center
1982
Reeve, Kay Aiken
56 pages
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Anschutz Collection
150 pages (color)
Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection
1981
Eiteljorg, Harrison
172 pages (color)
Light & Color Images from New Mexico
1981
Museum of Fine Arts
94 pages (color)
Western Masters: A Comprehensive Exhibition Petersen Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Stern, Jean
124 pages (color)
Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Ballinger, James K
206 pages (color)
The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Bermingham, Peter
67 pages
Taos: A Painter's Dream
1980
Broder, Patricia Janis
321 pages (color)
The Legendary Artists of Taos
1980
Nelson, Mary Carroll
176 pages (color)
Painters in Taos Formative Years (Eiteljorg Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Phoenix Art Museum
60 pages (color)
Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection
1979
Broder, Patricia Janis
155 pages (color)
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
American Art of the Taos School
1978
Peters, Gerald P
480 pages (color)
Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection
1978
Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent
244 pages (color)
Paintings from the McKee Foundation (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Phoenix Art Museum
36 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
The American West Selections/Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Ballinger, James K
24 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Art of Arizona & the Southwest Paintings from Santa Fe Industries Inc (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Phoenix Art Museum
25 pages (color)
Santa Fe Collects (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
64 pages (color)
The Westerners
1974
Brown, Dee
288 pages (color)
Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Denver Art Museum
215 pages (color)
Selections from the Collection Mr & Mrs Fred T Hogan (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Museum of Texas Tech Univ
60 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)
Art of the West (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Maxwell Galleries
48 pages (color)
The Southwest The Land and the People (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Phoenix Art Museum
40 pages
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
Harmsen's Western Americana
1971
Harmsen, Dorothy
212 pages (color)
The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute
1971
Rossi, Paul/David Hunt
335 pages (color)
The West and Walter Bimson Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture
1971
Steadman, William E
223 pages (color)
The West, Artists and Illustrators
1971
Tucson Art Center
32 pages
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
Art of the Western Scene 1880-194 (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Phoenix Art Museum
28 pages
The Cowboy in Art
1968
Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward)
242 pages (color)
The McKee Collection of Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1968
El Paso Museum of Art
66 pages (color)
An Exhibition of Paintings of the Southwest From the Santa Fe Railway Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Hinkhouse, F M
26 pages
Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Read Mullan Gallery
40 pages (color)
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of)
1956
McCracken, Harold
32 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Portrait of the Old West
1952
McCracken, Harold
216 pages (color)
Taos and Its Artists
1947
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
168 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One