Taos: A Painter's Dream is an important contribution to the history of American art. Patricia Janis Broder, an authority on Western art, has prepared it from many scattered sources, including rare firsthand and unpublished accounts. More than 300 illustrations, 60 of them in color, are reproduced in a large, handsome format that does full justice to this appealing and vital strain of American realism. A chronology, bibliography, and notes on the artists are included. --front end flap.