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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

TAOS MOUNTAINS (PICURIS) PAINTED BY NATHANAEL VOLCKENING

 

NATHANAEL VOLKENING  Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 ft) United States of America (New Mexico) In Winer bloom, oil on silk, 14 x 11cm, Taos Studio Society.


NATHANAEL VOLKENING
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 ft)
United States of America (New Mexico)

In Winer bloom, oil on silk, 14 x 11cm, Taos Studio Society.


The mountains
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 feet) is one of the Ridge in Taos County, nearby Osha Canyon and Vallecitos. Named Pikuria – those who paint – by Spanish colonizer Juan de Oñate, Picuris is located 24 miles (38 km) southeast of Taos in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains via N.M. 68, 518, and 75. Picuris, once the largest, today is one of the smallest Tiwa pueblos, with some 1,801 inhabitants (Census 2000). Like Taos, it was influenced by Plains Indian culture, particularly the Apaches
If one like biking, the ride takes you into the scenic and historic part of Picuris Mountains. About 2 miles from the start of this ride you will cross the historic Camino Real, or “Royal Highway,” that served as the original highway to Taos for traders, settlers, and Native Americans traveling north and south for several hundred years.
In late spring through fall this ride is free of snow and dry. It can be pretty beastly pushing up this mountain in the middle of summer. Plan on riding early or late in the day to avoid the heat.

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2022 - Wandering Vertexes / Mountain paintings
By Francis Rousseau

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

PICURIS MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY VICTOR HIGGINS

 

VICTOR HIGGINS ( 1884-1949)   Picuris Mountains (2,967 m -  9,734 feet)  United States of America (New Mexico)    In Taos Mountain, ca. 1940, oil on canvas,
 
VICTOR HIGGINS ( 1884-1949)
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 ft)
United States of America (New Mexico)

In Taos Mountain, ca. 1940, oil on canvas, Private collection 


The mountains
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 feet) is one of the Ridge in Taos County, nearby Osha Canyon and Vallecitos. Named Pikuria – those who paint – by Spanish colonizer Juan de Oñate, Picuris is located 24 miles (38 km) southeast of Taos in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains via N.M. 68, 518, and 75. Picuris, once the largest, today is one of the smallest Tiwa pueblos, with some 1,801 inhabitants (Census 2000). Like Taos, it was influenced by Plains Indian culture, particularly the Apaches
If one like biking, the ride takes you into the scenic and historic part of Picuris Mountains. About 2 miles from the start of this ride you will cross the historic Camino Real, or “Royal Highway,” that served as the original highway to Taos for traders, settlers, and Native Americans traveling north and south for several hundred years.
In late spring through fall this ride is free of snow and dry. It can be pretty beastly pushing up this mountain in the middle of summer. Plan on riding early or late in the day to avoid the heat.

The artist
William Victor Higgins was an American painter and teacher, born at Shelbyville, Indiana. He studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
In Paris he was a pupil of Robert Henri, René Menard and Lucien Simon, and when he was in Munich he studied with Hans von Hayek. He was an associate of the National Academy of Design. Higgins moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1913 and joined in 1917 the Taos Society of Artists founded two years before by Joseph Henry Sharp, W. Herbert Dunton, Eanger Irving Couse et Oscar Edmund Berninghaus.
In 1923 he founded The Hartwood Foundation with Louise Harwood and Bert Phillips. He then painted a lot of works representing the mountains range surrounding the city of Taos and especially the Pueblo Mountains.
During the Depression, he was commissioned to paint a mural inside the Taos County Courthouse financed by the PWAP, titled Moises, El Legislador.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes 
A blog by Francis Rousseau

Saturday, November 2, 2019

PICURIS MOUNTAINS (2) PAINTED BY AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA



AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA (1865-1931) 
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 ft) 
United States of America (New Mexico) 

In Taoskoti auringossa, oil on canvas

The mountains
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 feet) is one of the Ridge in Taos County, nearby Osha Canyon and Vallecitos. Named Pikuria – those who paint – by Spanish colonizer Juan de Oñate, Picuris is located 24 miles (38 km) southeast of Taos in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains via N.M. 68, 518, and 75. Picuris, once the largest, today is one of the smallest Tiwa pueblos, with some 1,801 inhabitants (Census 2000). Like Taos, it was influenced by Plains Indian culture, particularly the Apaches
If one like biking, the ride takes you into the scenic and historic part of Picuris Mountains. About 2 miles from the start of this ride you will cross the historic Camino Real, or “Royal Highway,” that served as the original highway to Taos for traders, settlers, and Native Americans traveling north and south for several hundred years.
In late spring through fall this ride is free of snow and dry. It can be pretty beastly pushing up this mountain in the middle of summer. Plan on riding early or late in the day to avoid the heat.

The painter
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallen to Gallen-Kallela in 1907. In 1884 he moved to Paris, to study at the Académie Julian and became friends with the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Adam Dörnberger, and the Swedish writer August Strindberg. 
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau


Tuesday, September 10, 2019

PICURIS MOUNTAINS BY AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA


AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA  (1865-1931) 
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m - 9,734 ft) 
United States of America (New Mexico) 

 In Vaja Taos vuorilla, oil on canvas

The mountains 
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m -  9,734 feet)  is one of the Ridge in Taos County, nearby  Osha Canyon and Vallecitos.  Named Pikuria – those who paint – by Spanish colonizer Juan de Oñate, Picuris is located 24 miles (38 km) southeast of Taos in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains via N.M. 68, 518, and 75. Picuris, once the largest, today is one of the smallest Tiwa pueblos, with some 1,801 inhabitants (Census 2000). Like Taos, it was influenced by Plains Indian culture, particularly the Apaches
If one like biking, the ride takes you into the scenic and historic part of  Picuris Mountains. About 2 miles from the start of this ride you will cross the historic Camino Real, or “Royal Highway,” that served as the original highway to Taos for traders, settlers, and Native Americans traveling north and south for several hundred years.
In late spring through fall this ride is free of snow and dry. It can be pretty beastly pushing up this mountain in the middle of summer. Plan on riding early or late in the day to avoid the heat.

The painter
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallen to Gallen-Kallela in 1907. In 1884 he moved to Paris, to study at the Académie Julian and became friends with the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Adam Dörnberger, and the Swedish writer August Strindberg.
In December 1894, Gallen-Kallela moved to Berlin to oversee the joint exhibition of his works with the works of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Here he became acquainted with the Symbolists.
On his return from Germany, Gallen studied print-making and visited London to deepen his knowledge, and in 1898 studied fresco-painting in Italy.
For the Paris World Fair in 1900, Gallen-Kallela painted frescoes for the Finnish Pavilion. In these frescoes, his political ideas became most apparent.Gallen-Kallela officially finnicized his name to the more Finnish-sounding Akseli Gallen-Kallela in 1907.
In 1909, Gallen-Kallela moved to Nairobi in Kenya with his family, and there he painted over 150 expressionist oil paintings and bought many east African artefacts. But he returned to Finland after a couple of years, because he realized Finland was his main inspiration. Between 1911 and 1913 he designed and built a studio and house at Tarvaspää, about 10 km northwest of the centre of Helsinki.
From December 1923 to May 1926, Gallen-Kallela lived in the United States, where an exhibition of his work toured several cities, and where he visited the Taos art-colony in New Mexico to study indigenous American art. In 1925 he began the illustrations for his "Great Kalevala". This was still unfinished when he died of pneumonia in Stockholm on 7 March 1931, while returning from a lecture in Copenhagen, Denmark
His studio and house at Tarvaspää was opened as the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

Sunday, March 11, 2018

PICURIS MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY ERNEST L. BLUMENSCHEIN


ERNEST  L. BLUMENSCHEIN (1874-1960)
 Picuris Mountains (2,967 m -  9,734 feet) 
United States of America (New Mexico) 

 In Picuris Mountain (Near Taos), ca. 1940, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum 

The mountains 
Picuris Mountains (2,967 m -  9,734 feet)  is one of the Ridge in Taos County, nearby  Osha Canyon and Vallecitos.  Named Pikuria – those who paint – by Spanish colonizer Juan de Oñate, Picuris is located 24 miles (38 km) southeast of Taos in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains via N.M. 68, 518, and 75. Picuris, once the largest, today is one of the smallest Tiwa pueblos, with some 1,801 inhabitants (Census 2000). Like Taos, it was influenced by Plains Indian culture, particularly the Apaches
If one like biking, the ride takes you into the scenic and historic part of  Picuris Mountains. About 2 miles from the start of this ride you will cross the historic Camino Real, or “Royal Highway,” that served as the original highway to Taos for traders, settlers, and Native Americans traveling north and south for several hundred years.
In late spring through fall this ride is free of snow and dry. It can be pretty beastly pushing up this mountain in the middle of summer. Plan on riding early or late in the day to avoid the heat.

The Painter 
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein  was an American artist and founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico and the American Southwest.
Ernest Blumenschein began in arts by studying violin at the Cincinnati College of Music, but after working as an illustrator for his high school newspaper, he sensed that he had found his calling. To pay for courses at the Art Students League, he played for the New York Symphony for two years, under the direction of the Czech composer Anton Dvorák  himself !  He saved enough money to move to Paris to sharpen his painting skills at the Adadémie Julian.
 Back in the United States, an assignment for McClure’s Magazine took him to Taos, New Mexico, for the first time. Charmed by the Southwest, Blumenschein eventually settled there along with other East Coast artists who had grown tired of life in the city.
As Blumenschein later recalled, “We all drifted into Taos like skilled hands looking for a good steady job . . . We lived only to paint. And that is what happens to every artist who passes this way.” (Henning, ed., Ernest L. Blumenschein Retrospective, 1978)
Ib a letter dated 1901 he wrote :  "I am wildly enthusiastic over my surroundings. Everything about me is inspiring me to work. Great mountain ranges that become as clear to one as a friend, landscapes, big and beautiful, deserts reflecting a vast sky, and you feel you are part of it all and are never alone.” in Paintings of the American Southwest, The Arvin Gottlieb Collection, brochure, National Museum of American Art, 1995
The style of painting of the Taos painters was to decisively influence the perceptions that the wider world came to have of the American Southwest, specifically of the Pueblo and Navajo Indian peoples.
During World War I, Blumenschein led a national effort to produce range-finder paintings used to help train military gunners.
Paintings by Blumenschein are held in the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos,  the Taos Art Museum and Fechin House,  the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe,  and the El Paso Art Museum in El Paso, Texas.