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Taos Painters: Don Louis Perceval (1908-1979)
Don Louis Perceval was born to an artist mother in Woodford, Essex, England in 1908. He was raised in Los Angeles, where Don Perceval attended the Pasadena Military Academy and Chouinard Art Institute. By the age of 19 Don Perceval had begun taking sketching trips to the desert, reaching Arizona first in 1927 and...
Taos Painters: Anna Elizabeth (Wilton) Keener (1895 - 1982)
Anna Elizabeth Keener (Mrs. Louis Raymond Wilton) was born in Flagler, Colorado in 1895, but spent most of her childhood in Dalhart, Texas. The beginning of a long career in academics began with first earning a BFA and BA degree from Bethany College in Linsborg, Kansas. During this time she attended summer...
Taos Painters: Arthur Earl Haddock (1895 - 1980)
Haddock was born near Clements, California in the Sierra Nevada foothills. In 1914 the aspiring teenage artist met Maynard Dixon who became his lifelong mentor and friend. Haddock attended the San Francisco Art Institute for one month in 1921, but most of his training resulted from working informally with Dixon. He...
Taos Painters: Augustus William Dunbier (1888 - 1977)
Gus Dunbier was known for his colorful impressionist landscape paintings. Dunbier was born to a German-immigrant family on their farm in Polk County, Nebraska. The family returned to Germany in 1899, and in 1907 Dunbier enrolled at the Royal Academy in Dusseldorf. He studied with the Impressionist, Adolf Munzer,...
Taos Painters: Barbara (Cook) Latham (1896-1976)
Born in Walpole, Massachusetts, Latham became a noted illustrator and painter of Southwest scenes. She studied at the Norwich Connecticut Art School, in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute, and the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York. Adventurous, especially for a woman of her time, she and a friend bicycled...
Taos Painters: Ben Turner (1912-1966)
Born in 1912 in Gallup, New Mexico, Ben Turner was one of few native New Mexico artists to become a prominent commercial success in the first half of the twentieth century. He also was a direct descendent of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851), the famous English marine painter. Ben showed a great deal of...
Taos Painters: Bert Geer Phillips (1868-1956)
Bert Geer Phillips was born in Hudson, New York and trained in fine art at the Art Students League in New York City. He was a dedicated artist even as a young man, and constantly sought out new instructors and material in order to hone his talents as a academic realist. He studied at the Julian Academy in Paris,...
Taos Painters: (Sven) Birger Sandzen (1871-1954)
From the time he was ten, Sven Birger Sandzen knew he wanted to be an artist. Born in Bildsberg, Sweden in 1871, he was the son of a Lutheran minister. He began his art studies in Europe at the College of Skara in Sweden and graduated from there in 1890 to continue his studies at the University of Lund. Having...
Taos Painters: Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955)
Bror Julius Nordfeldt was a Swedish immigrant to the United States who moved to Chicago as a fourteen year-old boy. There, he worked as a typesetter at a Swedish-language newspaper, where his superiors noticed his artistic talent and urged him to pursue a career in art. To that end, Nordfeldt enrolled in the Chicago...
Taos Painters: William Herbert "Buck" Dunton (1878-1936)
William Herbert Dunton, known later in life as