Taos

In 1898, the painters Bert Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein were crossing New Mexico when, on a remote road, they lost a wagon wheel and walked into a tiny mountain village for help. They never left. Blumenschein would later say he’d never seen a place more beautiful than Taos. In the 1920s, benefactress Mabel Dodge Luhan used her wealth to bring painters, writers, photographers, and musicians to settle here. From then on, the artists just kept coming. Today, names like Nicolai Fechin, E. Irving Couse, Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, Agnes Martin, and R. C. Gorman, among many others, are indelibly linked to the town, and its streets are home to dozens of galleries and museums, including the Harwood Museum of Art, Millicent Rogers Museum, and Taos Art Museum.
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