Fremont Ellis (1897–1985) was the youngest member of

Los Cinco Pintores Los Cinco Pintores ("The Five Painters") was a group of early 20th-century artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico that included Will Shuster, Fremont Ellis, Walter Mruk, Jozef Bakos, and Willard Nash. By 1921, Shuster, Ellis, Mruk, Bakos, and Nash h ...

, a group of early 20th century artists who lived in

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , literal translation, lit. "Holy Faith") is the capital city, capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County. With over 89,000 residents, Santa Fe is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, fourt ...

. Ellis was born and raised in

Virginia City, Montana Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. Virginia City was the territorial capital of Montana from 1865 to 1875. In 1961 the town and the surrounding area were designated a National Historic Landm ...

. He was primarily self-taught, and was not formally educated beyond the first grade of elementary school. At the age of 13 he began painting and in 1915, he attended the

Art Students League of New York The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City. The Arts Students League is known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists. Although artists may study f ...

for three months. In 1919 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then spent time in California before returning to Santa Fe. In 1921, he, along with fellow artists Will Shuster, Willard Nash, Joseph Bakos and Walter Mruk founded the Los Cinco Pintores artists colony on Camino del Monte Sol. The group of artists built a compound of adjacent homes on Camino del Monte Sol on a tract of land owned by the archaeologist/artist Frank Applegate. He exhibited his work together with the collective until 1926 when the group disbanded. Ellis' work was exhibited in a solo show at the

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

in 1922. His work is held in the permanent collections of the

New Mexico Museum of Art The New Mexico Museum of Art is an art museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe governed by the state of New Mexico, United States. It is one of four state-run museums in Santa Fe that are part of the Museum of New Mexico. It is located one bloc ...

, the

Gilcrease Museum Gilcrease Museum, also known as the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, is a museum northwest of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma housing the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art of the American West, as well as a gr ...

, the El Paso Museum, among other venues.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, Fremont Artists from Santa Fe, New Mexico 20th-century American artists 1897 births 1985 deaths American landscape painters

See also

References