Chicago’s Important Impact on Early New Mexico Art with Lenore Macdonald

Lenore Macdonald takes us from Chicago to Taos, New Mexico, explaining the oversized and important impact that Chicago civic and business leaders, corporations, institutions, media, cultural mavens, artists, and others had over a century ago upon the earliest Anglo fledgling art community in the West, in the small, remote mountain village of Taos. Artists went to Taos to capture its clear, crisp lighting, endless vistas, majestic mountains, and its native inhabitants on canvas. Did they realize that they would create a lasting legacy?Native Chicagoan and Taos part-time resident Lenore Macdonald is a retired attorney and an independent researcher. She has served as a trustee of Taos’ Couse-Sharp Historic Site/The Couse Foundation and the Millicent Rogers Museum. She also writes the "Dispatch From Taos" column in Classic Chicago Magazine.

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