Born in Pittsburgh, May 1874, to a professional musician father, Blumenschein helped found the Taos Society of Artists. In his youth he went to school for violin and eventually played with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Music did not fulfill him completely, however, and he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City. He went on to study in Paris at the Julian Academy where, in 1895, he met Joseph Henry Sharp, who told Blumenschein about a great city in New Mexico called Taos. Just two years later he received an illustration assignment from McClure’s Magazine which required he go to Taos. He quickly came to understand the location's allure. The next summer he became one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists and traveled between his home in New York and New Mexico for years. In 1919 he and his wife Mary Shepard Greene moved to Taos permanently. Blumenschein, more than any other Society member, experimented with the changing American art movements. Afternoon of a Sheep Herder (1939) is an example of his take on the American Regionalism style born from the Art Students League and used often for Depression era murals. Blumenschein died in Taos in 1960 at age 86. (http://drc.nationalcowboymuseum.org/about/galleries/taossocietyofartists.aspx) undefined

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