Born in San Francisco in 1887, Thomas Benrimo began to draw at a young age, but the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his early drawings and notebooks and forced the family to move... Read full biography
Born in San Francisco in 1887, Thomas Benrimo began to draw at a young age, but the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his early drawings and notebooks and forced the family to move to New York. Despite suffering from tuberculosis, Benrimo recovered and became a successful stage... Read full biography
Born in San Francisco in 1887, Thomas Benrimo began to draw at a young age, but the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his early drawings and notebooks and forced the family to move to New York. Despite suffering from tuberculosis, Benrimo recovered and became a successful stage designer and commercial artist in New York. He painted seriously whenever he could, but only a few of the Cubist paintings of this early period survive. Benrimo taught at Pratt Institute and was one of... Read full biography
Born in San Francisco in 1887, Thomas Benrimo began to draw at a young age, but the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his early drawings and notebooks and forced the family to move to New York. Despite suffering from tuberculosis, Benrimo recovered and became a successful stage designer and commercial artist in New York. He painted seriously whenever he could, but only a few of the Cubist paintings of this early period survive. Benrimo taught at Pratt Institute and was one of the first in this country to introduce the teaching methods developed at the German Bauhaus School of design. Benrimo moved to Taos, New Mexico, in 1939, and was able at last to paint full-time. His work evolved through periods of Cubism and... Read full biography
Born in San Francisco in 1887, Thomas Benrimo began to draw at a young age, but the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his early drawings and notebooks and forced the family to move to New York. Despite suffering from tuberculosis, Benrimo recovered and became a successful stage designer and commercial artist in New York. He painted seriously whenever he could, but only a few of the Cubist paintings of this early period survive. Benrimo taught at Pratt Institute and was one of the first in this country to introduce the teaching methods developed at the German Bauhaus School of design. Benrimo moved to Taos, New Mexico, in 1939, and was able at last to paint full-time. His work evolved through periods of Cubism and Surrealism and pure abstraction, often showing influences of antiquity, traditional painting and architecture, yet the... Read full biography
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About Thomas Benrimo: Books
Books & Publications (38)
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Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage
2009
Behrens, Roy R.
461 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
Modernists in Taos: From Dasburg to Martin
2002
Witt, David L.
208 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)
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
Paintings of the Southwest
1994
Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell
128 pages
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
Taos Moderns Art of the New
1992
Witt, David
120 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Modernist Themes in New Mexico Works by Early Modernist Painters (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerald Peters Gallery
56 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 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 American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935
1981
Davidson, Abraham A
324 pages (color)
Light & Color Images from New Mexico
1981
Museum of Fine Arts
94 pages (color)
American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977
Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)
256 pages (color)
Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Wechsler, Jeffrey
116 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection
1969
Curator
127 pages
The Life and Work of Thomas Duncan Benrimo (Unpublished MA Thesis)
1968
Kurman, Richard
63 pages
Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1967
U of New Mexico Art Museum
64 pages (color)
An Exhibition of the Work of Tom Benrimo (1887-1958) (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Donovan, C.V.
15 pages
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
American Genius in Review No I
1960
Macagy, Douglas
46 pages
American Painting Today
1956
Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed)
127 pages (color)
Taos and Its Artists
1947
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
168 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index