
My Time There
The Art Colonies of Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, 1956-2006
R.H. Dick(Author)
Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association (Publisher)
Published on 17. August 2007
Book
Hardback
127 pages
978-0-9639804-8-9 (ISBN)
Description
Shortly before the turn of the twentieth century, in September 1898, artists Bert Phillips and Ernest Blumenschein discovered Taos, New Mexico, and became cofounders of one of America's most famous art colonies. In a few short decades, a dazzling assortment of artists, writers, and intellectuals were to make their way into Taos and Santa Fe. From D. H. Lawrence to Georgia O'Keeffe to Edna St. Vincent Millay to the Russian, Nicolai Fechin, all seemed lured by its landscape and lifestyle. An American ""vie de boheme"" had been established. This memoir, using previously unpublished documents, letters, and photographs, explores the life of these two art colonies from the mid-1950s to the present. As an artist with paintbrush and camera, Missouri-born R. H. Dick gives both the scholar and general public a fascinating glimpse into the now vanishing world of the artists of his generation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Saint Louis
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
119 illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-9639804-8-9 (9780963980489)
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Person
As an artist, R. H. Dick has been the recipient of numerous awards, and he has had several successful one-man exhibitions. He is the coauthor of An American Art Colony, which won the Missouri Governor's Award in 2005. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.