Georgia O'Keeffe and the Stieglitz Circle

Over the years New Mexico artists have organized themselves into groups for artistic collaboration and economic strength. The Taos Society of Artists (1915-1927), Los Cinco Pintores (Santa Fe between 1921 and 1927), the Transcendental Painting Group (Taos and Santa Fe from 1938 to 1942), and Albuquerque United Artists (1978 through 1995) are the best-known examples.

New Mexico first attracted Marsden Hartley, then Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rebecca Salsbury Strand James, Cady Wells, and Eliot Porter. All were associated with Alfred Stieglitz, his publications, and galleries. These artists played an important role in the development of modernist traditions in painting and photography in New Mexico.