Bert Geer Phillips (American, 1868 – 1956)

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realism colored by romantic ideals
Bert Geer Phillips
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Bert Geer Phillips (1868 - 1956) was an American
artist and a founding member of the Taos Society
of Artists. He was the first artist to
permanently settle in Taos, New Mexico (1898) and
is considered to be the founder of the Taos art
colony. He is known for his paintings of Native
Americans, New Mexico, and the American
Southwest. He was also a benefactor of the
Western artist Harold Dow Bugbee, who became
curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
in Canyon, Texas in 1951.
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Wild iris in Taos
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Wild iris
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Ancient chants
War Captain Rides
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Warbonnet shadows
Silent music
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Aspen forest and mountain peak
The flute player
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Apache Indianapolis Museum of Art
Kerna Tudl Erha
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Apache
Tudl Whee La Na
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Portrait of an Indian
Taos Mountain
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Song of the Yellow Flower
Voices of the woods
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October Aspens
In the Lake at Timberlane
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Indian Fishing
A good catch
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Afternoon in the Aspens
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Taos winter landscape
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The Elk Hunter
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The santero
Kneeling indian
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Scout with white horse
The indian hunter of Taos
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Taos girl and fawn
Taos indian, 1904
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The Rabbit Hunt
Pastoral Scene
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Aspens in fall
The Rabbit Hunt
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The historian
Ocatillo
After the Ceremony
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Bucking the cowboy
The Water Carrier
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Taos Mountains
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Still Life with Onions
Old gate Taos
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Spanish girl of Taos
Portrait of a Mexican girl
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Portrait of an Indian Chief
Ceremonial Drummer
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Portrait of an Indian Girl
Song of the Flute
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Song to the Aspen forest
A pueblo hunter
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In the Aspens
Hawarden Wales
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Pueblo women husking corn
Scene near Arroyo seco Taos
Wales
Mural indian-sketch
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Looking Backward
Aspens
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A Native American Family in an Orchard
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A Native American Family in an Orchard (detail)
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Cottonwoods, c.1935
Carving the Tribal Emblem
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Indian Aspens
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Nar Ah Kig Gee Ah Tzur Kit Carsons apache scout,
c.1900
Indian tying moccasin
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Taos indian native American
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Relics of his Ancestors
Bert-La Jolla Seascape
Moonlight Vigil - Taos
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Spectators at Winter Carnival
Our Washerwoman's Family, ca.1918
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Corpus Christi Sunday in Taos
Making his mark
Taos indian
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Indian encampment
Taos pueblo dancers
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Sound Jose Cabezas-Ancient Winds
Indian Song R.Carlos
Nakai - Eagles soar-Native Spirit
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Taos Pueblo (northern New Mexico) is the only
living Native American community designated both
a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National
Historic Landmark. The multi-storied adobe
buildings have been continuously inhabited for
over 1000 years. Situated in the valley of a
small tributary of the Rio Grande, this Pueblo
Indian settlement, consisting of adobe dwellings
and ceremonial buildings, exemplifies the
enduring culture of a group of the present-day
Pueblo Indians. It is one of a group of
settlements established in the late 13th and
early 14th centuries in the valleys of the Rio
Grande and its tributaries that have survived to
the present day and constitutes a significant
stage in the history of urban, community and
cultural life and development in this region.
Pueblo de Taos is similar to the settlements in
the Four Corners area of the Anasazi, or ancient
Pueblo people at such places as Chaco Canyon and
Mesa Verde, and continues to be a thriving
community with a living culture. Criterion Pueblo
de Taos is a remarkable example of a traditional
type of architectural ensemble from the
prehispanic period of the Americas unique to this
region and one which, because of the living
culture of its community, has successfully
retained most of its traditional forms up to the
present day.