Photographs from the Helen G. Blumenschein Estate
Content Description
(640) Photographs from the Helen Blumenschein (1909-1989) Estate, daughter of Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960) and Mary Shepard Blumenschein (1969-1958). Includes family (Ernest, Mary, Helen) photographs and maternal and paternal relatives, NM scenes, Indians, Northwest logging and mining scenes, Taos artist colony related material, and photos of Ernest, Mary, and Helen’s artwork. (1) album containing (51) reproductions, mostly photos, of E.L. Blumenschein's work. Photographs are albumen, and silver prints, and some other formats. The collection intimately documents the family and artistic history of their lives, and also includes rare and significant photographs of Southwest Native Americans. The Blumenscheins were all celebrated artists of their times.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Provenance
Shirley Davis
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- Creation: 1870-1970
Extent
640 photographs ; various sizes: 4x4, 7.5x8.5, 8x10, 4.5x6.5, 3.5x4.5, 4 3/4x7
Subject
- Blumenschein family (Family)
- Blumenschein, Mary Shepard Greene, 1869-1958 (Person)
- Blumenschein, E. L. (Ernest Leonard), 1874-1960 (Person)
Genre / Form
- Cabinet photographs
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Color photography
- Gelatin silver prints
- Photograph albums
- Photographic postcards
- Photography--Negatives
- Snapshots
- Tintype
Geographic
- Acoma Pueblo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Northwest -- United States -- Pictorial Works
- San Felipe Pueblo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- San Ildefonso (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Southwest -- Photography
- Taos (N.M.) -– Art
- Taos Pueblo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
Topical
- Art -- New Mexico -- Taos
- Art, American -- New Mexico -- Taos -- 20th century.
- Art, American –- New Mexico –-Taos
- Art, modern -- 20th Century -- New Mexico -- Taos
- Burros
- Couse, E. Irving (Eanger Irving), 1866-1936
- Family Portraits
- Family Vacation -- Photography
- Fishing
- Formal Portraits
- Gilpin, Laura, 1891-1979
- Hopi Indians -- Pictorial works
- Indian Reservations
- Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Pictorial works.
- Indians of North America -- Southwest
- Indians of North America, Southwest, Old Photographs
- Landscape photographs - Southwest
- Logging
- Native Americans - Pictorial works
- Native Americans of North America
- Photographs--United states--Southwest region
- Southwest Views
- Southwest Views -- United States
- Taos Art Colony
- Taos Indians
- Taos Indians -- Pictorial works
- Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.
- Taos art
- Taos art -- 20th century