Offered in this lot is a Signed First Edition of "Taos: A Painter's Dream", Patricia Janis Broder, 1980, New York Graphic Society publisher. Author hand-signed, dated and wrote a personalized message on half-title page. Written by Western art authority Patricia Janis Broder, this book is considered the most comprehensive study of the first generation of Taos painters and the history of the Taos Society of Artists. It features over 300 illustrations (60 in color) and covers the lives and works of the 11 original members of the Taos Society of Artists. It draws from rare firsthand accounts to detail how a small, isolated village became an international art mecca. The reputation of Taos as a painter's paradise began with the "Taos Six," a group of professional artists from the East who founded the Taos Society of Artists in 1915, Joseph Henry Sharp, Ernest L. Blumenschein, Bert Geer Phillips, Oscar E. Berninghaus, Eanger Irving Couse, and W. Herbert Dunton. Patricia Janis Broder (1923–2002) was a prominent American art historian, author, and lecturer specializing in the art of the American West and Native American cultures. She was widely regarded as a leading authority in her field and received the Trustees Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to the West from the National Academy of Western Art. The brown cloth bound silver gilt hardcover is in very nice condition, intact pages are clean and bright, illustrated paper dust jacket in good condition overall. Measures 10.125"W x 11.125"L x 1.125"D, weight is 4lb.