Jozef Bakos (1891 - 1977)

A significant contributor to modernism in the American Southwest, Jozef Bakos was a member of Los Cinco Pintores, Spanish for Five Painters, the first artist group in New Mexico devoted to modernism and bringing art to the local people. He co-founded the group with Walter Mruk, Willard Nash, Will Shuster and Fremont Ellis in 1921.