Theodore Wores in the Southwest

Edited by Stephen Becker

Best known for paintings of Japan, San Francisco-born artist Theodore Wores (1858-1939) painted Native American models between 1915 and 1917. His inspiration came from the Santa Fe Railway's "Grand Canyon of Arizona" exhibit at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, a trip to the Grand Canyon, and a few months spent in intensive work at Taos, New Mexico, living among artists and painting Native Americans at Taos Pueblo. Through Wores' own written accounts and photographs and new oral historical research, this book explores the artist's Southwest Indian paintings from the collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and leads the reader through the discovery of the lives and times of the artist's models in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.

About the authors: Stephen Becker, former Executive Director of the California Historical Society, lived and worked in the high Southwest of New Mexico for ten years, serving as the Assistant Director of the Museum of International Folk Art and the Director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and Laboratory of Anthropology. Contributors to this book include Pamela Young Lee, former Chief Curator of the California Historical Society, and David Turner, former Director of the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts and currently Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon.

Publication date:
Fall 2006