Tree Trunk

Bakos studied at Buffalo’s Albright School of Art, the Toronto School of Art, and with John Thompson. He became the first art professor at the University of Colorado in 1919, but moved to Santa Fe in 1920. Bakos helped form Los Cinco Pintores (The Five Painters) in 1921. In 1923, the Taos Society of Artists rejected Bakos for membership because his work was considered too radical. In response, Bakos helped found “The New Mexico Painters” in 1923, comprised of the more avant garde artists in Santa Fe and Taos. He taught at the Santa Fe Art School, the Chappell School of Art (an affiliate of the University of Denver), and at Santa Fe High School. Anonymous purchase in honor of Joseph W. Foran. Now on display in the PPHM Southwestern Gallery.