Two Graces’ List of 100 Great Books About Taos and the Surrounding Area

Art and Artists

·      Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder

·      Spirit Ascendant: The Art and Life of Patrocino Barela, Edward Gonzalez and David L. Witt

·      Zones of Experience: The Art of Larry Bell, Albuquerque Museum

·      Oscar E. Berninghaus: Taos, New Mexico, Gordon. E. Sanders

·      Ernest L. Blumenschein, Larson

·      The World of Flower Blue: Pop Challee, Margaret Cesa

·      Eanger Irving Couse: Image Maker for America, Virginia Couse Leavitt

·      The Art and Life of W. Herbert Dunton, Julie Schimmel

·      Nicolai Fechin, Mary N. Balcomb

·      Fechin: The Builder, Eya Fechin

·      R.C. Gorman: A Portrait, Stephen Parks, Photography by Chuck Henningsen

·      Victor Higgins, An American Master, Dean A. Porter

·      Gene Kloss: American Printmaker: A Raisonne, A. Eugene Sanchez

·      Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon, Henry Martin

·      Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso, Alice Marriott 

·      Eva Mirabal: Three Generations of Tradition and Modernity, Lois P. Rudnick & Jonathan Warm Day Coming

·      Teepee Smoke: A New Look into the Life of Joseph Henry Sharp, Forrest Fenn

·      Paul Strand Southwest, Paul Strand

·      Mildred Tolbert: Among the Taos Moderns, Robert Bell and James Mann

·      Pablita Velarde: The Story of an American Indian, Mary Caroll Nelson

·      Jim Wagner Taos: An American Artist, Stephen Parks

·      Remarkable Women of Taos, Elizabeth Cunningham 

·      Southwestern Pottery Anasazi to Zuni, Allan Hayes & John Blom

·      Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church, John L. Kessell, Sandra D'Emilio, and Suzan Campbell

·      Taos Artists and Their Patrons, Dean Porter

·      Artists of the Canyons and Caminos, Edna Robertson and Sarah Nestor 

·      A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians. Sascha T. Scott

·      Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West, S.C. Taggett

·      The Taos Society of Artists, Robert White

·      Taos Moderns: Art of the New, David L. Witt

·      Modernists in Taos: From Dasburg to Martin, David L. Witt, Elizabeth J. Cunningham, Michael O’Shaughnessy

Biography and Memoir

·      A Life in Full: Millicent Rogers, Arthur Bachrach

·      Searching for Beauty: Life of Millicent Rogers, Cherie Burns 

·      But Time and Change: The Story of Padre Martinez, Fray Angelico Chavez

·      Long John Dunn of Taos, Max Evans 

·      Taos Mosaic: Portrait of a New Mexico Village, Claire Morrill and Laura Gilpin

·      Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse, Sharyn Udall 

Georgia O’Keeffe

·      Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams, Natural Affinities, Barbara Buhler-Lynes

·      Georgia O’Keeffe Catalogue Raisonne, Barbara Buhler-Lynes

·      Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico, Barbara Buhler-Lynes

·      Remembering Miss O’Keeffe: Stories from Abiquiu, Margaret Wood

 Frank Waters

·      The Man Who Killed the Deer, Frank Waters

·      Masked Gods, Frank Waters

·      Mountain Dialogues, Frank Waters

·      Of Time and Change, Frank Waters

·      People of the Valley, Frank Waters 

Literature

·      Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey

·      Bless Me Ultima, Rudolph Anaya

·      Indian Stories from the Pueblos, Frank Applegate

·      The Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin

·      Red Sky at Morning, Richard Bradford

·      Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

·      The House at Otowi Bridge, Peggy Pond Church 

·      The Hi-Lo Country, Max Evans 

·      Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail, Louis S. Garrard

·      The Painter, Peter Heller (Loosely based on Jim Wagner)

·      The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Tony Hillerman

·      The Spell of New Mexico, Tony Hillerman

·      Leaphorn-Chee Mysteries (Series), Tony Hillerman

·      Birds of Sorrow, Tom Ireland

·      Laughing Boy, Oliver LaFarge

·      The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn, John Nichols

·      Milagro Beanfield War, John Nichols

·      Howard Moon Deer (Mystery Series), Robert Westbrook

  D.H. Lawrence

·      Birds, Beasts and Flowers: Poems by D.H. Lawrence

·      Mornings in Mexico, D.H. Lawrence

·      The Woman Who Rode Away (and other stories), D.H. Lawrence

·      Lawrence and Brett: A Friendship, Dorothy Brett 

·      D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico, Arthur J. Bachrach 

·      A Poet and Two Painters, Knud Merrild

  History

·      When Old Trails Were New: The Story of Taos, Blanche C. Grant

·      The Delight Makers, Adolph Bandelier

·      The Taos Indians, Blanche C Grant

·      Centuries of Hands: An Architectural History of St, Francis of Assisi Church, Van Dorn Hooker and Corina Santistevan

·      Great River: Rio Grande in North American History, Paul Horgan 

·      The Place Names of New Mexico, Robert Julyan.

·      Taos Indians and the Battle for the Blue Lake, Gordon McCutchan

·      Taos Pueblo, Elsie Clews Parsons

·      Ladies of the Canyons, Leslie Poling-Kempes

·      Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides

·      History of Taos, F.R. Bob Romero

·      Taos: A Topical History, Corina Santistevan, editor

·      The Taos Trappers, David J. Weber

·      On the Edge of the Empire: The Taos Hacienda de los Martinez, David J. Weber

 Culture

·      The Penitente Brotherhood, Michael P. Carroll

·      Mayordomo, Stanley Crawford

·      Wicked Taos, Ellen Dornan

·      New Kingdom of the Saints, Larry Frank

·      Tradiciones, Nuevomexicanas Hispano Arts, Montano

·      New Mexican Furniture, 1600 – 1940, Lonn Taylor

·      New Mexican Tinwork, Coulter and Dixon

·      Acequia: Water-sharing, Sanctity, and Place, Syvia Rodriguez

·      Built of Earth and Song: Churches of Northern New Mexico, Marie Romero Cash 

·      Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest, Marta Weigle

Mabel Dodge Luhan

·      A History of Having a Great Many Times Not Continued to Be Friends: Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911-1934. Everett, Patricia

·      Edge of Taos Desert, Mabel Dodge Luhan

·      Winter in Taos, Mabel Dodge Luhan

·      Mabel Dodge Luhan and Company, Rudnick & Wilson-Powell

·      Utopian Vistas, Louise Rudnick

·      Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West, Lois P. Rudnick