Los Cincos Pintores
Los Cinco Pintores ("The Five Painters") was a group of artists in Santa Fe that included Will Shuster, Fremont Ellis, Walter Mruk, Jozef Bakos, and Willard Nash formed in 1921. In December of that year, the New Mexico Museum of Art presented their first exhibition as a group. The five painters were all under 30 years of age and new to Santa Fe at that time.[1] An interesting account of the early beginnings of Los Cinco Pintores can be read in Nicholas & Helena Roerich, The Spiritual Journey of Two Great Artists and Peacemakers by Ruth A. Drayer. The Roerichs were a Russian couple who visited Santa Fe in 1921 and encouraged the five painters to band together to support their artistic expressions.