Born in Hudson, New York, at the age of fifteen, he began five years of study in New York City at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He spent several years painting professionally in New York, and in 1894 went to England and then to Paris where he attended the Academie Julian and met artists Joseph Henry Sharp and Ernest Blumenschein, who would become lifetime friends.
Sharp told them about the opportunities of painting around Taos, New Mexico, and in the summer (showing 500 of 13464 characters). |
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Bert Phillips is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Paris Pre 1900
Taos Pre 1940
Western Painters
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