Bert Geer Phillips | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Art Students League of New York National Academy of Design Académie Julian |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Taos Society of Artists |
Bert Geer Phillips (July 15, 1868 – June 16, 1956) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He settled in what was then Taos, New Mexico Territory (1898) and was a founder of the Taos art colony.[1] He is known for his paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest. He was also a benefactor of the Western artist Harold Dow Bugbee, who became curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas in 1951.