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2 unusual facts about Leon Gaspard


Leon Gaspard

They eventually settled in Taos, New Mexico, though he continued to devote much of his time to traveling to paint in remote locations.

Gaspard found artistic success in Taos, which became an international art center during his lifetime, due to the presence of contemporary painters such as Joseph Henry Sharp and E. Irving Couse, and the founding of the Taos Society of Artists.



see also

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

The Fleischaker Collection, a large collection of more than 350 pieces of Native American and southwestern paintings, sculpture and ceramics, including some of the most famous works by Russian Taos painters Leon Gaspard and Nicolai Fechin.