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Thomas Benrimo

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Thomas Duncan Benrimo (1887 - 1958) was active/lived in New Mexico, New York, California.  Thomas Benrimo is known for Surreal, modernist-leaning landscape, illustration.

Born in San Francisco in 1887, Thomas Benrimo began to draw at a young age, but the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his early drawings and notebooks and forced the family to move to New York.

Despite suffering from tuberculosis, Benrimo recovered and became a successful stage designer and commercial artist in New York. He painted seriously whenever he could, but only a few of the Cubist paintings of this early period survive. Benrimo taught at Pratt Institute and was one of the first in this country to introduce the teaching methods developed at the German Bauhaus School of design.

Benrimo moved to Taos, New Mexico, in 1939, and was able at last to paint full-time. His work evolved through periods of Cubism and Surrealism and pure abstraction, often showing influences of antiquity, traditional painting and architecture, yet the artist believed, as he had once observed, that "abstract art departs from reality and nature only   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7122 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  38
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Thomas Benrimo
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Modernists in Taos December 2002 Witt, David L. Yes
American Art Review The Old Jail Art Center December 2001 Blagg, Margaret Yes
38 Book References for Thomas Benrimo
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Behrens, Roy R. Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage 461 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Witt, David L. Modernists in Taos: From Dasburg to Martin 208 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950 400 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1994 Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell Paintings of the Southwest 128 No
1993 Ellis, Simone Santa Fe Art 112 Yes
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1992 Museum of Fine Arts Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection 167 Yes
1992 Witt, David Taos Moderns Art of the New 120 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Gerald Peters Gallery Modernist Themes in New Mexico Works by Early Modernist Painters
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe 218 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1981 Davidson, Abraham A Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935 324 Yes
1981 Museum of Fine Arts Light & Color Images from New Mexico 94 Yes
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1977 Wechsler, Jeffrey Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts 192 Yes
1969 Curator American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection 127 No
1968 Kurman, Richard The Life and Work of Thomas Duncan Benrimo (Unpublished MA Thesis) 63 No
1967 U of New Mexico Art Museum Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1965 Donovan, C.V. An Exhibition of the Work of Tom Benrimo (1887-1958)
(Exhibition catalog)		 15 No
1963 Coke, Van Deren Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942 168 Yes
1960 Macagy, Douglas American Genius in Review No I 46 No
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1947 Luhan, Mabel Dodge Taos and Its Artists 168 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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