Taos Painters: Louis Benton Akin (1868-1913)
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pulled from site's meta descriptionLouis Akin grew up in Portland, Oregon, the grandson of pioneers who had come to the West by way of the Oregon Trail. Akin studied art in New York with Merritt Chase and Frank Dumond before traveling to Arizona to paint the Hopi in 1903. The Hopi pieces were commercially successful and were reproduced as postcards and travel posters. The appeal of Arizona had been its climate, which helped Akin to recover from tuberculosis, but the land grew on him so much, he spent most of the rest of his life there. He lived in Flagstaff, on the Hopi reservation in Oraibi and in the El Tovar Hotel on the south rim of the Grand Canyon while in Arizona, and was inducted into the Hopi's secret society and given the name
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