Houses and Walls

ANDREW DASBURG, 1887-1979

Dasburg had visited New Mexico in 1917 at the urging of Maurice Sterne, and finally settled in Taos in 1930. Applying Cezanne and Cubism to New Mexico produced both powerful Western landscapes and a shock wave for New Mexico artists. His new European ideas affected even the older Taos group, Higgins, Berninghaus, and Blumenschein. As an influence for pioneering modernism, for re-evaluating the same subjects originally painted by Couse and Ufer, Dasburg was of the greatest importance in New Mexico. In turn, Dasburg became less abstract.

Resource: SAMUELS' Encyclopedia of ARTISTS of THE AMERICAN WEST, Peggy and Harold Samuels, 1985, Castle Publishing