![]() ![]() They preceded the early Santa Fe artists by only a couple of decades. They formed a cohesive group of educated Easterners in a tiny, remote village seventy miles north of Santa Fe. A more recent society, the Spanish colonists who had settled the area in the sixteenth century, had brought in their own European traditions of furniture, wood carving, embroidery, tinwork and painted embellishments.įinally, there were the Taos Founders who had arrived at the end of the nineteenth century. Their culture was beautiful to see and to paint, and their own artistic heritage was evident in pottery, weaving and architecture. ![]() These artists were charmed by the native inhabitants, who had lived in the surrounding pueblos for centuries. Its proportions are majestic, yet its scale is human. It was, and is, a matchless blend of shape, color and light. When "Anglo" artists began to settle in the Santa Fe area in the opening years of the twentieth century, they discovered a mother lode of images, esthetics and amenities. ![]()
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