Oscar Berninghaus

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Alt text: Oil painting of men on horseback riding through the desert with a stagecoach beyond them
Alt text: Oil painting of men on horseback riding through the desert with a stagecoach beyond them, framed

Oscar E. Berninghaus (American, 1874–1952)
Following The Wagons (Indians at Sunset), c. 1925
Oil on canvas, 22 H. x 28 W. inches
Signed lower left: O. E. Berninghaus

Artist Biography

Berninghaus, one of the six founders of the Taos Society of Artists in 1915, was an important member of this expanding group of influential figures who found inspiration in the Southwest, portraying a purely Americanregion and culture. They would become widely renowned as: The Taos School.