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In 1918, Leon Gaspard and his wife settled in Taos, New Mexico. A late comer to the art scene in Taos, he was received coolly at first until "Buck" Dunton made him his friend. Painting and traveling, Gaspard was able to establish himself as an important painter of the West.

Gaspard had been born in Russia and was a respected European painter long before he came to America. His first one-man show while still a student in Paris resulted in the purchase of 35 Paris sketches by a New York collector.

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