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New Mexico Artists

Taos Artists

Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West, Sherry Clayton Taggett and Ted Schwarz, John Muir Publications, Santa Fe, 1990, ISBN 0-945465-65-3

Pioneer Artists of Taos, Laura M. Bickerstaff, Old West Publishing Co., Denver, 1955, revised & expanded edition, ISBN 0-912094-21-4

Taos: A Painter's Dream, Patricia Janis Broder, New York Graphic Society, Boston, Brown and Company, 1980, ISBN 0-8212-83167-0

Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950, Dean A. Porter, Teresa Hayes Ebie, & Suzan Campbell, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1999, ISBN 0-8263-2109-7

The Taos Society of Artists & Ancient Cultures, Jochen Wierich & Dean A. Porter, American Art Review Magazine, July-August 2005, Volume XVII Number 4, page 100

Oscar E. Berninghaus: Master Painter of American Indians and the Frontier West, Gordon E. Sanders, Taos Heritage Publishing Company, Taos, New Mexico, 1985, ISBN 0-9615177-1-9

E. Irving Couse, 1866-1936, Nicholas Woloshuk, Santa Fe Village Art Museum, Santa Fe, 1976, no ISBN information

Eanger Irving Couse: Image Maker for America, Exhibition Catalogue, The Albuquerque Museum Foundation & the Lynn and Peter Coneway Foundation, 1991, Library of Congress Catalog No. 91-061890

The Art and Life of W. Herbert Dunton, 1878-1936, Julie Schimmel, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1984, ISBN 0-292-77031-6

The Genius of Nicolai Fechin: Recollections by Forrest Fenn, Forrest Fenn, One Horse Land & Cattle Company, 2001, ISBN 0-9670917-1-3

Joseph A. Fleck: An Early Taos Painter, Museum of Fine Arts/Museum of New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 1985, ISBN 0-89013-152-X

E. Martin Hennings: Paintings & Works on Paper from Europe & Taos, The Peters Corporation, Santa Fe, 1991, ISBN 0935037-42-6

Victor Higgins: An American Master, Dean A. Porter, Gibbs-Smith Publisher, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1991, ISBN 0-87905-362-3

Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony, Julie Schimmel & Robert R. White, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1994, ISBN 0-8263-1444-9

The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance: A Study of the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp, Forrest Fenn, Fenn Publishing Co, Santa Fe, 1983, ISBN 0-937634-06-9

Santa Fe Artists

Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942, Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall, The Peters Corporation, Santa Fe, 1987, ISBN 0-935037-15-2

Albert Schmidt, 1885-1957: The Silent Partner, The Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 1993, ISBN 0-935037-52-7

New Mexico - General

Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths to Taso and Santa Fe, Charles C. Eldredge, Julie Schimmel, & William H. Truettner, Abbeville Press, Inc., New York, 1986, ISBN 0-89659-598-6

Light & Color: Images from New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1981, ISBN 0-89013-134-1

A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and Public Art in New Mexico, Jacqueline Hoefer, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2003, ISBN 0-86534-371-3

Printmaking in New Mexico: 1880-1990, Clinton Adams, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1991, ISBN 0-8263-1259-4

Pueblo Indian Painting: Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico, 1900-1930, J.J. Brody, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, 1997, ISBN 0-933452-46-2

Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest, David Clemmer, Schenck Southwest Publishing, Santa Fe, 2003, ISBN 097191516

Georgia O'Keefee, The Peters Corporation, Santa Fe, 1990, ISBN 0-935037-39-X


Western Artists

American Frontier Life: Early Western Painting and Prints, Alan Axelrod, editor, Cross River Press, Ltd., 1987, ISBN 0-517-68786-0

Art of the Golden West: An Illustrated History, Alan Axelrod, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990, ISBN 1-55859-103-6

Best Western, John Dorfman, Art+Auction Magazine, July 2005, Volume XXVII Number 11, page 58

Bronzes of the American West, Patricia Janis Broder, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1973, ISBN 0-8109-0133-1

Great Painters and Illustrators of the Old West, Harold McCracken, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1988, ISBN 0-486-25731-2

An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West, Phil Kovinick & Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1998, ISBN 0-292-79063-5

History of Western American Art, Royal B. Hassrick, Bison Books Corp., Exeter Books, New York, 1987, ISBN 0-671-08930-7

The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Dallas Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1998, ISBN 0-8109-6364-7

Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection, Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, ISBN 0-300-08722-5

Samuels' Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, Peggy & Harold Samuels, Castle Publishers, 1976, 1985, ISBN 1-55521-014-7

Techniques of the Artists of the American West, Peggy Samuels, Harold Samuels, Joan Samuels, & Daniel Fabian, The Wellfleet Press, Decaucus, New Jersey, 1990, ISBN 1-55521-662-5

The West Explored: The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art, The Peters Corporation, 1988, ISBN 0-935037-22-5

Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, Judith A. Barter, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-86559-199-7

Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Hastings Falk, editor, Sound View Press, 1985, ISBN 0-932087-00-0

Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise, Nancy K. Anderson & Linda S. Ferber, The Brooklyn Museum, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1990, ISBN 0-87273-125-1

Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region, Helen Laird, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, 1986, ISBN 0-87905-180-9

American Indian Portraits: Elbridge Ayer Burbank in the West (1897-1910), M. Melissa Wolfe, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 2000, ISBN 1-882790-26-X

The Art of Elbridge Ayer Burbank: From the Harold and Bonnie Julsen Collection, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 2005, ISBN 1-931717-11-7

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery, Brian W. Dippie, Therese Thau Heyman, Christopher Mulvey, & Jan Carpenter Troccoli, W.W. Norton & Company, 2002, ISBN 0-937311-54-5

Curtis' Western Indians: Life and Works of Edward S. Curtis, Ralph W. Andrews, Bonanza Books, New York, 1962, LoC Card Number 62-14491

Heart of the Desert: The West of Gerard Curtis Delano, Donald J. Hagerty, main contributor, Gerald Peters Gallery, Inc., 2001, ISBN 0-935037-67-5

Walking With Beauty: The Art and Life of Gerard Curtis Delano, Richard G. Bowman, University Press of Colorado, Niwot, Colorado, 1990, ISBN 09625410-0-1

Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon, Donald J. Hagerty, Gibbs Smith Publisher, Peregrine Smith Books, Layton, Utah, 1993, ISBN 0-87905-550-2

Charlie Dye: One Helluva Western Painter, Paul Weaver, Peterson Prints, Los Angeles, 1981, ISBN 0-8227-8038-0

Leon Gaspard, Frank Waters, Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1981, ISBN 0-87358-299-3

William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier, Douglas Waitley, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 1998, ISBN 0-87842-381-8

The Indian Legacy of Charles Bird King, Herman J. Viola, Smithsonian Institution Press and Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976, ISBN 0-385-12485-6

W.R. Leigh: The Difinitive Illustrated Biography, June DuBois, The Lowell Press, Kansas City, 1977, ISBN 0-913504-42-4

The Paynes, Edgar & Elsie: American Artists, Rena Neumann Coen, Payne Studios Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1988, ISBN 0-944699-01-4

Frederic Remington: An American Artist, The National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Okahoma, 1996, ISBN 0-932154-29-8

Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America, Alexander Nemerov, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995, ISBN 0-300-05566-8

Frederic Remington, The Peters Corporation, Santa Fe, 1991, ISBN 0-935037-40-3

The Western Art of Frederic Remington, Matthew Baigell, Ballantine Books, New York, 1976, ISBN 345-33515-5

Charles M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon G. Carter Collection, Frederic G. Renner, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1966, ISBN 0-292-73622-3

Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography, Emory Lindquist, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1993, ISBN 0-7006-0575-4

Will Shuster: A Santa Fe Legend, Joseph Dispenza & Louise Turner, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1989, ISBN 0-89013-199-6

Indian Experiences, DeCost Smith, The Caxton Printers Ltd., Caldwell, ID, 1943, no ISBN information

Harold Von Schmidt: Draws and Paints the Old West, Walt Reed, Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1972, ISBN 0-87358-095-8

Carl Wimar: Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier, Rick Stewart, Joseph D. Ketner II, & Angela L. Miller, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1991, ISBN 0-8109-3958-4


Contemporary Art

Parallel Messages (Bill Baker), Virginia L. Clark, Taos Magazine, March-April 2004, Volume XXI Number 2, page 11

George Carlson: Art as Worship, Barbara Coyner, Art of the West Magazine, May-June 2001, Volume 14 Number 4, page 42

George Carlson: Dignity in Art, James H. Nottage with George Carlson, Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, 1993, ISBN 1-882880-00-5

Cultural Converger: The Art of Paul Pletka, Lauren Whitehurst, Santa Fean Magazine, June 2005, Volume 33 Number 5, page 68

The Indians of Paul Pletka, Robert & Sharon Ashton, Arizona Highways Magazine, June 1975, Volume LI Number 6, page 8

Pletka, Evan Maurer, introduction, Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1983, ISBN 0-87358-309-4

Paul Pletka: Native Images, Springfield Art Museum, Missouri, 2003

Antoine Tzapoff: Natifs d'Amerique, Editions Ramsay, sur les presses de l'Imprimerie Herissey, Evreux, France, 1992, ISBN 2-84041-005-2

Antoine Tzapoff: Paintings of..., Center for Museological Research and Services, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, ISBN 968-29-9696-1


Internet Links

Old Santa Fe Trading Co. Operated by Santa Fe legend Forrest Fenn, the site includes photographs, item information, and writings by Mr. Fenn.

Canyon Road Arts An on-line guide, with a print guide companion, to Santa Fe galleries, hotels, restaurants, and other attractions.

Museum of Fine Arts Official web site for the state fine arts museum in Santa Fe, NM


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