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Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village

Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village

$34.95 at de Young Museum.

An illuminating corrective to the limiting perspective of the Pueblo people put forth by the Taos Society of Artists. Drawn to the region in pursuit of what they described as uniquely American subjects, the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists (TSA)—a group of Anglo-American painters active in the early 20th century—traveled to Pueblo homelands and encountered a thriving artistic world with a rich tradition of commerce and exchange. The TSA artists painted their impressions of Taos Pueblo, and…