{"product_id":"leon-gaspard-forrest-fenn-9780991479214","title":"Leon Gaspard: The Call of Distant Places","description":"Leon Shulman Gaspard (1882-1964) was an interesting addition to the New Mexico arts scene when he arrived in 1918. A Russian-born, French-trained veteran of the airborne campaigns of the Great War, he arrived physically diminished from a horrific plane crash that had put him in a French hospital for two years. Seeking a more hospitable climate, he arrived in Taos to find a vibrant arts community and an exotic blend of native, western, and Hispanic cultures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Having traveled widely throughout Russia, China, Mongolia, Tibet, Morocco, and Northern Africa as a fur trader, painter, army pilot and spy, Gaspard had a love of exotic cultures and a desire to document them artistically. Taos allowed him just such an opportunity, and he set out to paint the Native Americans in much the same way he had painted the native peoples of North Africa and Asia while in Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A pariah of sorts when he first arrived, Gaspard was saved socially when Herbert Dunton, one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists, took a liking to him and began to bring him around to meet his colleagues. A kindly and gregarious man, Gaspard eventually became accepted and well liked, and one of the most important of the many distinguished artists that made Taos their home in the early part of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Forrest Fenn, Carleen Milburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0991479211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780991479214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tia Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.60h x 10.30w x 1.30d","brand":"Forrest Fenn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989696479487,"sku":"9780991479214","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32dcb0f5-6403-4dd3-ad0d-d03653357983.jpg?v=1683300931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leon-gaspard-forrest-fenn-9780991479214","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}