Andrew Dasburg

Andrew Michael Dasburg (4 May 1887 – 13 August 1979) was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism". Born in Paris and raised in New York City, he trained at the Art Students League of New York before traveling to Paris, where he encountered the work of Paul Cézanne and became deeply influenced by Cubism. He became an ardent promoter of the Cubist style and exhibited at the landmark 1913 Armory Show, where his three Cubist-oriented oils were considered "daringly experimental".

Dasburg spent much of his career in New Mexico, settling first in Santa Fe and later in Taos, where he integrated the boxy traditional architectural styles of the Pueblo region into his Cubist art. He was part of a social milieu that included Georgia O'Keeffe, Gertrude Stein, and Mabel Dodge Luhan. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and won prizes at major international exhibitions. His works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum, among others.