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In excellent condition in original frame. Beginning around 1915 Albert Lujan began painting images of Taos Pueblo and its surrounding. Lujan sold his paintings to tourists visiting the Pueblo. Acquiring one of his paintings was a bit like purchasing a painted postcard, with some of them actually evidencing such use with stamps applied. His oil paintings were unlike ledger book style illustrations, or flat style "Indian School" watercolors then popular with other outsider Native American artists. Lujan's painting were usually deeply romanticized and non-religious scenes of the Pueblo and contrast sharply with with the sentimental and static dance images created by other Pueblo artists. The paintings generally depict the reality of daily life in the village and rather than viewing it as an outsider, for instance as a member of the Taos Society of Artists.
Obviously influenced by painters such as the Taos Society of Artists in there use of oil and perspective, Taos Pueblo artists made an active living from their painting talents that interpreted their culture finding favor with visiting tourists. Albert Looking Elk, Juanita Lucero, John (Juan) Concho, Sam Martinez, and a few other Pueblo easel artists have emerged as Native American artists that carried older art traditions forward and in so doing created new ones.
In excellent condition in original frame. Beginning around 1915 Albert Lujan began painting images of Taos Pueblo and its surrounding. Lujan sold his paintings to tourists visiting the Pueblo. Acquiring one of his paintings was a bit like purchasing a painted postcard, with some of them actually evidencing such use with stamps applied. His oil paintings were unlike ledger book style illustrations, or flat style "Indian School" watercolors then popular with other outsider Native American artists. Lujan's painting were usually deeply romanticized and non-religious scenes of the Pueblo and contrast sharply with with the sentimental and static dance images created by other Pueblo artists. The paintings generally depict the reality of daily life in the village and rather than viewing it as an outsider, for instance as a member of the Taos Society of Artists.
Obviously influenced by painters such as the Taos Society of Artists in there use of oil and perspective, Taos Pueblo artists made an active living from their painting talents that interpreted their culture finding favor with visiting tourists. Albert Looking Elk, Juanita Lucero, John (Juan) Concho, Sam Martinez, and a few other Pueblo easel artists have emerged as Native American artists that carried older art traditions forward and in so doing created new ones.
