Helen 1909-1989, started the scrapbook to memorialize the graphics process of her calendars. She was the daughter of the famed Taos artists Ernest and Mary Greene Blumenschein. Although she wanted to carry on the family legacy as a painter, she found interest primarily in graphics. Her first calendar appears in 1937. She produced an annual (?), calendar showcasing the local artists including herself. The assorted drawings, paintings, notes, prints in various stages, and actual finished calendars are the entire unedited contents of the scrapbook. Artists represented are: E. J. Bistram, Ila MacAffee, Kaisa (pueblo artist), Kenneth Adams, Ernest Blumenschein, Mary Blumenschein, Loren Moseley, Gene Kloss, Ward Lockwood, O. E Berninghaus. Calendars 1937,1942,1943, 1948, 1965
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