Arts: New Mexico Painters

” New Mexico Painters ”

At Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other New Mexican centers, live artist colonies as vigorous as those of Provincetown, Old Lyme, Gloucester or Woodstock, attracted by Indian atmosphere and other exotic themes. Eight of these painters have organized a society called the New Mexico Painters. It includes: F. G. Applegate, J. G. Bakos, Gustave Bauman, Ernest L. Blumenschein, William P. Henderson, Victor Higgins, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Walter Ufer-Blumenschein, Higgins, Ufer are particularly well known as painters of Indian and desert subjects. The purposes of the group are twofold: 1) “To produce beautiful and vital works of art” inspired by the blending of Spanish, Anglo-Saxon and Indian civilizations in the great Southwest (the old Spanish province of Nueva Mexico); 2) to hold annual exhibitions in New York, Chicago and other art centers. The men are mostly progressives, but represent many tendencies and lay emphasis on distinctly personal vision.