Earl Stroh

Earl Stroh was a painter and printmaker associated with the Taos Moderns. Born in Buffalo, New York, Stroh attended the Art Institue of Buffalo and went on to study at the Art Students League of New York in New York City. In 1947 he moved to Taos, New Mexico, where he worked with two esteemed artists, Andrew Dasburg and Thomas Benrimo. He became well-connected in Taos and was inducted into the group now known as the Taos Moderns.

Stroh found a friend and generous patron in Helene Wurlitzer, heiress and benefactor of Taos arts. Through the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Wurlitzer supported him throughout his study of etching at the Atelier Friedlander in Paris during the mid-1950s. He would prove to be a virtuosic printmaker and was selected several times as a guest artist at the Tamarind Institute of the University of New Mexico.

In 2004, his Makimoto Suite, a lithographic triptych, was exhibited at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. The Historic Santa Fe Foundation director Pete Warzel called the work “as intricate a print work as may be visually possible in the medium”. Stroh continued to produce paintings and prints until his passing in 2005.