Video 3min 16sec. Rare footage recently archived of Taos Pueblo 100 years ago.

In Taos, one ventures into an artist's paradise - a strange place of picturesque people.

Types and customs of the race furnish inspiration for Walter Ufer, who is at work on his painting "The Solemn Pledge."

Here also, we find Ernest Blumenschein depicting on canvas "An Old Indian Philosopher" whose portrait is to adorn the National Academy of Design in New York.

Taos is a town of cliff dwellers, rich in every detail of antiquity.

Ernest Blumenschein is one of the founders of the Artist Society in Taos, New Mexico.

3 Videos. Three recently released video that is an intimate insight into world-renowned artist, Taos'-own, R. C. Gorman.

Jussta interviews R.C. Gorman at his studio in his home in Taos, New Mexico prior to his 20-yr (actually, lifetime) Retrospective at the Millicent Rogers Gallery.

R.C. is shown painting, several of his fine art are shown.  Some of his art and famous collectors photographs are shown.

Gorman grew up in a traditional Navajo Hogan and began drawing at age 3. His grandmother helped raise him, recounting Navajo legends and enumerating his genealogy of artist ancestors. She kindled his desire to become an artist. While tending sheep in Canyon de Chelly with his aunts, he used to draw on the rocks, sand, and mud, and made sculptures with the clay, with his earliest subjects including Mickey Mouse and Shirley Temple.

Harvard University recognized him for "notable contributions to American art and Native American culture" in 1986, and Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco declared March 19 to be "Gorman Day".

His famous friends and collectors of his work included Elizabeth Taylor, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barry Goldwater, Gregory Peck, Erma Bombeck, Lee Marvin, Jackie Onassis and even fellow artist Andy Warhol, who silk-screened a portrait of Gorman that hung in his bathroom.

Part 1 is the interview, he plays the piano and speaks about his retrospective art show at the Millicent Rogers Gallery in Taos, New Mexico.

Part 2 - R.C. paints and hangs out with Jussta.

Part 3 - Jussta of Taos shows many different R.C. Gorman Paintings and sculptures in Part 3 of R.C.'s 20-Year Retrospective which was held at the Millicent Rogers Gallery in Taos, New Mexico. Shows R.C.'s model and him painting in his studio in his beautiful home.

Jussta: RIP, R.C. - my sweet and creative and generous friend.

Video - 3min 2sec. Nicolai Fechin was already an internationally known artist when, in 1926, artist John Young Hunter suggested he move from New York City to Taos to experience the real America.

Mabel Dodge Luhan offered accommodations for Nicolai, His wife Alexandra, and daughter Eya in one of her guest houses bordering Taos Pueble.

Before long, Fechin began indulging his passion for wood carving and knowledge of architecture by building a home of his own.

The house he built between 1927 and 1933 is now the gracious and welcoming home of the Taos Art Museum.

This is an excerpt from a program that plays continuously at the museum and gives background into the interesting life and art of NicolaI Fechin, a prominent Taos artist whose former home houses the museum.

TAO is Taos Artist's Organization, a membership organization to develop a strong visual arts community in the historic Taos, New Mexico village.

Each year in Taos, TAO organizes the Taos Artists' Open Studio Tour. This beauty filled video (9min 48sec) is about the 2009 show and a great tribute to all these artists.

The Taos Art Colony is an art colony which began in 1898 with the visit of Bert G. Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein to Taos, New Mexico.