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Artists began visiting Santa Fe in the 1880s on adjacent property and used the first as a
drawn to the natural beauty, exotic subjects painting studio and an office for his new con-
found in pueblos and Spanish villages, and clean struction business focused on Santa Fe-style
dry mountain air that eased respiratory illnesses. homes and furniture, that soon dominated the
The painter Gerald Cassidy was the first artist to neighborhood.
live on Canyon Road. He arrived with severe By 1919, Santa Fe’s reputation drew east
pneumonia, fully recovered, and in 1912 bought coast artists to visit and then move, including
a home and studio at 1000 Canyon Road. New Yorkers and established artists, John
In 1916, William Henderson, a successful Sloan and Randall Davey. Both worked and
painter, and poet Alice Henderson moved to lived in Canyon Road homes and studios for
Santa Fe because of her tuberculosis. She re- decades. These artists cemented Santa Fe’s
covered, and they bought a small adobe house reputation as a significant art colony. A wave of
just south of Canyon Road. They built a home talented artists followed them.

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