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1904 Southbridge, Massachusetts - 1954 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for: Modernist, abstract landscape and religious figure painting.
Described as a talented young painter who had left his wealthy family in the East to settle in Taos, Cady Wells---also known as Henry Cady Wells, was born and raised in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He... Read full biography
Described as a talented young painter who had left his wealthy family in the East to settle in Taos, Cady Wells---also known as Henry Cady Wells, was born and raised in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He was 20 years old before deciding to become an artist. As a gay young man, he was sent by his family... Read full biography
Described as a talented young painter who had left his wealthy family in the East to settle in Taos, Cady Wells---also known as Henry Cady Wells, was born and raised in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He was 20 years old before deciding to become an artist. As a gay young man, he was sent by his family at age 22 to Mesa, Arizona to the Evans School Ranch for Boys, which, described as the western equivalent of Philips Andover, was designed to give eastern young men a college preparatory education in... Read full biography
Described as a talented young painter who had left his wealthy family in the East to settle in Taos, Cady Wells---also known as Henry Cady Wells, was born and raised in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He was 20 years old before deciding to become an artist. As a gay young man, he was sent by his family at age 22 to Mesa, Arizona to the Evans School Ranch for Boys, which, described as the western equivalent of Philips Andover, was designed to give eastern young men a college preparatory education in a western ranch lifestyle environment. From there, he studied and traveled widely, pursuing interests in music and the visual arts. In 1932 he went to New Mexico and almost immediately fell under the influence of Andrew Dasburg, who became his... Read full biography
Described as a talented young painter who had left his wealthy family in the East to settle in Taos, Cady Wells---also known as Henry Cady Wells, was born and raised in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He was 20 years old before deciding to become an artist. As a gay young man, he was sent by his family at age 22 to Mesa, Arizona to the Evans School Ranch for Boys, which, described as the western equivalent of Philips Andover, was designed to give eastern young men a college preparatory education in a western ranch lifestyle environment. From there, he studied and traveled widely, pursuing interests in music and the visual arts. In 1932 he went to New Mexico and almost immediately fell under the influence of Andrew Dasburg, who became his mentor for the next several years. Portraying the southwestern landscape in watercolor, Wells moved thro... Read full biography
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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Symbolism, Iconography, Ceremonial
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
Art Teacher
- •Andrew Dasburg
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •Edith and Milton Lowenthal
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Santa Fe Artist Colony
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art