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Saddle with high horn and cantle; date unknown.

Dunton first visited Taos in 1912 before moving there in 1915. He gave up his successful illustration career in favor of easel paintings and was a founder of the Taos society of artists. Winter Camp of the Sioux was shown in the 1916 Taos Society of…

Ohio native Charles P. Shipley (1865-1943) started his saddlery near the Kansas City, Missouri stockyards in 1885, catering to working cowboys. Between 1910 and 1920, Shipley’s became better known for bits and spurs. T.E “Buck” Yarbrough was…

Founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1866, the Askew Saddlery Company was among the first saddlers to cater to working cowboys driving cattle to market in Kansas City or Chicago. The Askew Saddle became known for superior materials and excellent…

Charles Goodnight supposedly received this silver-mounted saddle- made by F.M. Stern of San Jose, California- as a gift from a Mexican government official. Goodnight presented the saddle to his foster son’s wife, Retta (Mrs. Cleo) Hubbard, in 1926.…

Prior to his trip to Paris in 1888, Reaugh made pencil and pastel sketches and studies for Watering the Herd. He exhibited the painting at the national Academy of Design in New York and lent it to the Texas and Pacific Railway for promotional…

This charcoal drawing is the beginning of a painting that famous Panhandle artist, Harold Bugbee planned to complete. This is the layout that Bugbee was working on the day before he died.

This piece is currently on display within the Bugbee…

Mead (1902-1986) studied at the Art institute of Chicago and with Hugo D Pohl in San Antonio. In the early 1930s, he had a studio near Palo Duro Canyon and painted three murals for PPHM’s Pioneer Hall. Mead also lived in San Antonio and in Dallas and…

Mounted specimen. A member of the pheasant and grouse family, lesser prairie-chickens are a threatened species due to habitat loss, a result historically from conversion of natural prairie to farmland.

Irving Couse (1866-1936) is perhaps the best known of all Taos artists because of reproductions of his paintings on Santa Fe Railway calendars from 1922-1934. Couse first visited Taos in 1902. He summered there every year, except 1904, before…