Los Cinco Pintores are discussed in many books about Santa Fe's art history. One image you are already very familiar with: in 1924, Will Shuster designed the original Zozobra figure, which is recreated and burned every year as part of Santa Fe's Fiesta. They lived in a compound of buildings up on Camino del Monte Sol, and were sometimes spoken of as "the five nuts in the adobe mud huts." It seems silly to post about them without showing you images of their work, but there are copyright constraints. On December 21, 1921, the group held their first exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. Los Cinco Pintores ("the five painters") were among the earliest artist groups in New Mexico. What are the names of Los Cinco Pintores? The short answer: Josef Bakos, This is one of those perennial reference questions.
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