About the artist and work, from Tamarind Institute:

Born in 1887, Andrew Dasburg is a pioneer among American modernist painters. After study at the Art Students League he went to Paris in 1909 where he visited the studio of Matisse, met Leo and Gertrude Stein and, most importantly, saw the paintings of Cezanne at Vollard's gallery. Upon returning to New York, he exhibited four works in the Armory Show of 1913. Dasburg first came to New Mexico in 1916 to visit his friend, Maurice Sterne. The structured mountains and valleys of Taos, so reminiscent of Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire, provided Dasburg with the motif which was to be dominant in his work for more than fifty years. The Taos Series represents a still further expansion of the long procession of brilliant landscape drawings which caused Alfred Frankenstein to write in 1966 that Dasburg's 'drawings reveal him as the greatest draftsman of landscape since Van Gogh."

The five lithographs that comprise The Taos Series are Dasburg's first published works in the medium. The artist executed the drawings on transfer paper in his Taos studio. After transfer at Tamarind, the stones were taken from Albuquerque to Taos so that he might make additions and deletions on the stone. The metal plates from which the rectangular color flats are printed were made at Tamarind. The artist selected all color inks and examined trial proofs prior to his approval of the bon a tirer impressions. All impressions are on white Arches paper. Each is initialed in pencil by the artist and is numbered or designated en verso. All impression bear the Tamarind chop and the cop of Master Printer John Sommers who collaborated closely with the artist in the making of the lithographs. Subsequent to printing, all stones and plates were effaced.

Ray Graham Collection