Artists
Taos Society of Artists
A broken wheel accident began one of the greatest eras of modern art in this country known as the Taos Society of Artists. In 1898
April 7, 2026
A broken wheel accident began one of the greatest eras of modern art in this country known as the Taos Society of Artists. In 1898
Since 1924, nearly everyone in Santa Fe has taken part in the annual celebration of the burning of Zozobra “Old Man Gloom” at Ft. Marcy
Instrumental in Santa Fe becoming an art mecca was the anthropologist Edgar L. Hewett who came to Santa Fe from Greeley, Colorado, in 1893 in
In 1920 the self-taught artist, Velina Shije Herrera, gave the state of New Mexico permission to use his design of the Zia sun symbol as
John Candelario was born in Santa Fe in 1916. A self-taught photographer, he was the grandson of Jesús Sito Candelario, who ran the curio shop
Igor Stravinsky died on this day on April 6, 1971 in New York. The composer was born on June 17, 1882 near St. Petersburg in
Padre José M. Gallegos became New Mexico’s first Hispanic delegate elected to Congress in 1853. The house he built on Washington Avenue in the late
The image of Zozobra in 1942 was a political comment that would not be appropriate today. That year Zozobra had squinty eyes to resemble a
Carlos Vierra took aerial photographs of the ancient ruins at Chaco Canyon in 1928. The following year Charles Lindbergh’s took his own archaeological photographs of
Allan Houser is considered one of the most important Native American artists of the 20th century. His work is displayed in collections throughout the southwest.