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Emil James Bisttram (American, 1895-1976)
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Emil James Bisttram
Old Taos Church 1955
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Emil James Bisttram
Taos Mountain in Spring
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Biography |
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1895 |
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Born: Hungary, near the Romanian border |
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1906 |
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Immigrated with his family to New York City |
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1923 |
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Began teaching at the Master Institute of the Roerich Museum, New York, NY |
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1920 - 1925 |
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Taught at Parson's School of Design, New York, NY |
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1930 |
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First visited Taos, NM |
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1931 |
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Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Mexico with Diego Rivera |
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1932 |
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Founded the first commercial art gallery in Taos, the Heptagon Gallery |
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1933 |
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Becomes supervisor for Treasury Relief Act Project, awarded Taos courthouse mural commission |
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1936 |
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Department of Justice Building mural commission, Washington, D.C |
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1937 |
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United States Post Office mural commission, Ranger, TX |
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1938 |
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Founded the Transcendental Painting Group with Raymond Johnson and several other painters, Santa Fe, NM |
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1941 |
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Opens the Bisttram School of Fine Art in Phoenix, Arizona |
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1952 |
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Co-founded the Taos Art Association |
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1959 |
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Grand Prize for painting at the New Mexico State Fair |
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1975 |
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April 7th declared “Emil Bisttram Day,” a New Mexico state holiday |
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1976 |
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Died: Taos, NM |
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Exhibitions |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (group) |
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2001 |
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (group) |
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1989 |
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"Modernist Themes in New Mexico: Works by Early Modernist Painters," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (group) |
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1980 |
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"The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico" (traveling exhibition) |
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1971 |
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Jamison Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo) |
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1970 |
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Jonson Gallery, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (solo) |
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1968 |
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"Taos Collects Bisttram," Taos Artists Association, Taos, NM (tribute exhibition) |
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1963 |
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"Art and the Atom" (traveling exhibition with eight other Taos artists) |
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1959 |
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Retrospective, Harwood Art Museum Taos, New Mexico
Retrospective, Leone Kahl Galery Dallas, Texas |
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1953 |
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Jonson Gallery, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Beaumont Museum of Art, Beaumont, TX (solo)
Springville Annual, UT (solo) |
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1951 |
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (group)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (group) |
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1946 |
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San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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1943 |
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Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK (solo) |
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1936 |
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Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (solo)
Denton College for Women, Denton, TX (solo)
Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX (solo) |
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1933 |
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Witte Memorial Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (solo)
Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (group) |
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1928 |
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Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Boston Art Association, Boston, MA (solo) |
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1927 |
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Buffalo Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (solo) |
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Selected Public Collections:
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Arizona State University Art Museum,Tempe, AZ; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN; Jonson Gallery of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,San Antonio, TX; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM;Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Sangre De Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO; Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX; The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, NY; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX; Philadelphia Museum or Art, Philadelphia, PA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM |
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Literature |
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1988 |
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Walt Wiggins. "The Transcendental Art of Emil Bisttram." Ruidoso Downs, NM: Pintores Press, 1988. |
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