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1879 First passenger train (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) arrives in Las Vegas, NM
1881 Billy the Kid killed near Fort Sumner, NM
1883–86 Joseph Sharp, Charles Lummis, Frederic Remington first visit New Mexico
1889 University of New Mexico created at Albuquerque
1890 Taos Pueblo census: 401; US Santa Fe Indian School established; Gerald Cassidy moves to Albuquerque and then moves to Santa
Fe in 1912
1892 AT&SF Railway sends Thomas Moran to Arizona and New Mexico
1893 Joseph Sharp sent to Taos by Harper's Weekly
1897 Blumenschein sent by McClure's to New Mexico
1898 Blumenschein and Phillips first visit Taos; Phillips stays
1899 O.E. Berninghaus first visits Taos
1902 E. Irving Couse first visits New Mexico; Sunmount Sanitorium established in Santa Fe
1903 Edward S. Curtis photographs Indians in New Mexico
1904 Carlos Vierra becomes Santa Fe's first resident artist
1907 Headquarters of School of American Archeology (later the School of American Research) established in Santa Fe
1909 Museum of New Mexico established in old Palace of the Governors
1910 Taos Pueblo census: 515
1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state of the Union
1915 First official meeting of the Taos Society of Artists; Willa Cather visits NM; Victor Higgins moves to NM
1916 Robert Henri and J. Rolshoven first visit NM; Theodore VanSoelen, Alice Corbin, William Penhallow Henderson, Mabel Dodge
Sterne (Luhan) move to NM; Leon Gaspard moves to Taos
1917 Georgia O'Keeffe first visits NM; spent her first summer at Ghost Ranch in 1934; established residence in 1949; dies in Santa
Fe 1986
1918 Gustave Baumann, Andrew Dasburg, Marsden Hartley, Mary Austin come to NM; Maria and Julian Marinez make first black-on-black
pottery at San Ildefonso Pueblo
1919–20 B.J.O. Nordfeldt, John Sloan, Willard Nash, Will Shuster, Jozef Bakos come to Santa Fe; Blumenschein establishes
residence in Taos
1921 Los Cinco Pintores founded in Santa Fe Hennings establishes residence in Taos
1922 First Annual Southwest Indian Fair; NM Association on Indian Affairs (parent of SWAIA) formed; Raymond Jonson visits Santa
Fe; 1934 Jonson began teaching at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; 1950 Jonson Gallery opened
1923 Laura Gilpin begins photographing in NM; Mabel Dodge marries Tony Luhan
1924 New Mexico Painters show at Montross Gallery, New York Kenneth Adams arrives in New Mexico; The Spanish Colonial Arts
Society created
1925 Indian Art Fund established to preserve heritage of Pueblo Indians
1926 Nicolai Fechin first visits Taos
1927 Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop is published; Ansel Adams first visits NM
1929 Laboratory of Anthropology established in SF with grant from John D. Rockefeller; Stock market crashes October 29
1932 Emil Bisttram founds Heptagon Gallery, first commercial gallery in Taos; Cady Wells and Ernest Knee move to NM; Dorothy Dunn
teaches first art classes at the SF Indian School
1938 Emil Bisttram and Raymond Jonson found New Mexico Transcendental Artists group
1942 Los Alamos selected as national center for nuclear research—the end of an era and the beginning of a new, smaller world
1990 Taos Pueblo census: 4,681
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