The Taos Art Colony is an art colony which began in 1898 with the visit of Bert G. Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein to Taos, New Mexico.
An article with drawings by Blumenschein about a ceremony at Taos Pueblo appeared in the July 10, 1898 issue of Harper's Weekly. Within a few years other artists joined them in Taos: Joseph H. Sharp, W. Herbert Dunton, E. Irving Couse, and Oscar E. Berninghaus. These 6 artists were the charter members of the Taos Society of Artists.
Taos is an artistic center and has many art galleries and museums.
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Many artists were drawn to Taos due to the presence of Mabel Dodge Luhan, an heiress who had run a prominent art salon in Manhattan before settling in Taos, where she married a Pueblo Indian man and built a house that can be visited today, just off Kit Carson Road in Taos. For decades, she invited artists, writers, and other creative people to stay with her in Taos. Many stayed and Taos grew as an art colony.
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