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About Fremont Ellis
Ellis was born in Virginia City, Montana, where he died in 1985. He spent part of his youth in New York City and marveled at masterpieces in the Metropolitan Museum. For several months he studied at the Art Students League in 1915. Much of Ellis’s career was spent in Santa Fe, where he arrived in 1919. Ellis was one of the founders of Los Cinco Pintores in 1921, along with Walter Mruk, Will Shuster, Josef Bakos and Willard Nash, all somewhat influenced by the Ash Can School. The group disbanded in 1926. Considered the loner of the group, Ellis went off to EspaZola, a small town nearby, then bought property with a hacienda ten miles east of Santa Fe.
Meanwhile, Ellis worked as a sign painter and photographer in Santa Fe. He utilized the camera when sketching and when painting, according to Samuels and Samuels, to fine-tune his color. Ellis exhibited some of his works: for instance, Sunlight and Shadows and Cochati at the Society of Independent Artists’ show in 1920 and only a year later he was honored with a one-man show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Anschutz Collection has his Springtime in New Mexico and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe has Campo Santo (1966).
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Paintings by Fremont Ellis
| Blue Pool, Rio Pueblo |
| oil on canvas: 20 x 16 inches |
| signed and dated 1975: lower right |
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