Taos is a fun place to visit. Just as museums, galleries and shops that fit Santa Fe, still offers the charm of speed and not in hurry, and a sense of place of meeting between Pueblo, Hispanic and American culture. His reputation as an art colony began in the late nineteenth century, with the arrival of the painter Joseph Henry Sharp. He was soon joined by two young New Yorkers, Bert Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein; legend has it that they lost their wagon wheels outside Taos when they went into Mexico in 1898, and they are very fond of them never got round to go.
The three men form the core of Taos Society of Artists, founded in 1915. Soon after that, the heir and art patron Mabel Dodge arrived, and was married to an Indian from the Pueblo to the Mabel Dodge complaints. He in turn wrote a fan letter to English novelist DH Lawrence, who visited three times in the early 1920s; widow Frieda makes her home in Taos after his death. New generation of artists and writers have been “discovered” from Taos, but the most famous of all is Georgia O’Keeffe, who lived for several years in the late 1920s. Her interpretation of the church in Ranchos de Taos in particular is a major influence on contemporary Southwestern art.
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