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1874 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1960 Taos, New Mexico. Known for: Indian figure and landscape painting, illustration.
A founder of the Taos Art Colony in Taos, New Mexico, Ernest Blumenschein became one of the Southwest's best-known painters of pueblo Indian genre. However, this period in his career for which he was... Read full biography
A founder of the Taos Art Colony in Taos, New Mexico, Ernest Blumenschein became one of the Southwest's best-known painters of pueblo Indian genre. However, this period in his career for which he was most known came relatively late in his life as he had strong academic training in New York and... Read full biography
A founder of the Taos Art Colony in Taos, New Mexico, Ernest Blumenschein became one of the Southwest's best-known painters of pueblo Indian genre. However, this period in his career for which he was most known came relatively late in his life as he had strong academic training in New York and Paris followed by a flourishing career as an illustrator in the East. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a prominent musician and had early exposure to both music and art. In Cincinnati,... Read full biography
A founder of the Taos Art Colony in Taos, New Mexico, Ernest Blumenschein became one of the Southwest's best-known painters of pueblo Indian genre. However, this period in his career for which he was most known came relatively late in his life as he had strong academic training in New York and Paris followed by a flourishing career as an illustrator in the East. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a prominent musician and had early exposure to both music and art. In Cincinnati, he attended the College of Music and The Art Academy, and then went to New York to the Art Students League. In New York, he supported himself as a violinist for the symphony and in 1894, played first violinist under conductor Antonin Dvorak. In 1895,... Read full biography
A founder of the Taos Art Colony in Taos, New Mexico, Ernest Blumenschein became one of the Southwest's best-known painters of pueblo Indian genre. However, this period in his career for which he was most known came relatively late in his life as he had strong academic training in New York and Paris followed by a flourishing career as an illustrator in the East. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a prominent musician and had early exposure to both music and art. In Cincinnati, he attended the College of Music and The Art Academy, and then went to New York to the Art Students League. In New York, he supported himself as a violinist for the symphony and in 1894, played first violinist under conductor Antonin Dvorak. In 1895, he studied in Paris at the Julian Academy where he became a close friend of Joseph Henry Sharp and Bert Phillip... Read full biography