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Our
Washer
Woman's
Family-
New
Mexico
(La
Lavanderia),
circa
1918.
By
Bert
G.
Phillips. Oil
on
canvas.
Gift
of
Governor
and
Mrs.
Arthur
Seligman,
Museum
of
Fine
Arts,
Museum
of
New
Mexico,
a
Division
of
the
Department
of
Cultural
Affairs.
Bert
G.
Phillips
was
born
in
Hudson,
New
York
in
1868. He
studied
at
the
National
Academy
of
Design
in
New
York
and
Académie
Julien
in
Paris. At
the
urging
of
Joseph
H.
Sharp,
Phillips
and
Ernest
Blumenschein
arrived
in
Taos
in
1893. Phillips
was
the
first
artist
to
establish
a
studio
there
and
was
one
of
the
six
original
members
of
the
Taos
Society
of
Artists
organized
in
1912. He
died
in
San
Diego,
California
in
1956.
From
Light & Color:
Images
from
New
Mexico:
Masterpieces
from
the
collection
of
the
Museum
of
Fine
Arts,
Museum
of
New
Mexico. Santa
Fe:
Museum
of
New
Mexico
Press,
1981.
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