Bert Geer Phillips (1868 - 1956)
Bert Geer Phillips was active/lived in New Mexico, California. Bert Phillips is known for Southwest Indian figure, landscape and genre painting.
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 12" x 16"
Frame Size: 15" x 19"
Condition: Great, Some restoration on the sky part
Style: Impressionist
Circa: 1900-1949

Bert Phillips made up his mind to stay in Taos the first day that he arrived on a visit. He lived and worked there for nearly sixty years, never tiring of what he described as "the romance of this great pure-aired land that makes the most lasting impression on my mind and heart."

Phillips was born in Hudson, New York, but eventually moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. In 1894, he journeyed to England and painted in the countryside, before going on to Paris to enroll in the Julian Academy. There he met his lifelong friend Ernest Blumenschein, and they returned to America and shared a studio in New York.

In 1898, Phillips traveled to New Mexico. He was initially drawn to Taos because his boyhood hero, Kit Carson, was buried there. Instead, he became entranced with the stark, wild beauty of the region. He was determined to study the Pueblo people and their environment before much of it was forever altered. Phillips was instrumental in the creation of the Taos Forest Preserve, which headed off the destruction of much of the valuable timber around the Pueblo. In 1908, as a result of the artist's efforts, the area was designated as the Carson National Forest.

Phillips became acquainted with many Indians, from older warriors who had known Kit Carson to younger subjects who posed for him in forests or by the light of a fire inside a pueblo room. The artist's work as a forest ranger had been necessary because of the circumstances of eyestrain from painting in too many darkened rooms and flickering firelight. This may have influenced several of his dramatic compositions, with the contrasting tension of color and shadow. His work clearly reflects a romantic concept of the Indian, without becoming overly sentimental in feeling.

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Private Collection from Connecticut

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Some restoration on the sky part