Emil Bisttram first visited Taos in 1930 and stayed at Mrs. Martin’s rooming house, which is now the Taos Inn. When they moved to Taos in 1932, he and his wife Mayrion first rented, then bought an adobe on Ledoux Street. To compensate for the lack of a local art market, Bisttram showed his entrepreneurial spirit by launching the Taos School of Art which would last for three decades. It was Bisttram who organized the murals painted in the new county courthouse as part of the “Treasury Relief Art Program”. If that wasn’t enough, Bisttram, Victor Higgins and Andrew Dasburg started the first free standing gallery in Taos on the plaza: Taos Heptagon Gallery.

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