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Bert Geer Phillips Taos Founder — Reproduction on Canvas, Spring Plowing Scene
A canvas reproduction after Bert Geer Phillips (1868–1956), one of the six founding members of the Taos Society of Artists. The image depicts a figure in a red shirt working a horse-drawn plow through a pink-earth field at the foot of the northern New Mexico mountains, with cottonwoods and sage filling the middle ground. The printed signature "Phillips" appears in red at the lower right, and a brass plaque reading BERT G. PHILLIPS 1868–1956 is mounted to the linen liner.
Phillips arrived in Taos in 1898 with Ernest Blumenschein after their famous broken-wagon-wheel detour and never left, becoming the most rooted of the Taos founders and a quiet champion of Pueblo culture and the northern New Mexico landscape. This is a decorative reproduction printed on canvas — not an original oil — presented in a gilt cove frame with linen liner that gives it the presentation of a period work.
CONDITION
Good as a decorative reproduction. Overall fading consistent with UV exposure; the palette reads cooler and more washed than an unfaded example would. Frame and linen liner are clean with minor handling wear.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall (framed): 23" × 27.5"
- Visible image: 15.5" × 19.5"
- Medium: Reproduction printed on canvas
- After: Bert Geer Phillips (American, 1868–1956)
- Markings: Printed "Phillips" signature lower right; brass artist plaque on liner
- Frame: Gilt cove molding with linen liner
