Albert Lorey Groll first visited Arizona and New Mexico in 1904, and he would continue to make frequent trips to the West for the next four decades. Kit Carson House Taos, N.M., made in 1905, takes as its subject the adobe residence of an (in)famous frontiersman, trapper, military commander, and Indian Agent. As such, it encompasses the problematic narratives of the “Wild West”—stereotypes of “Cowboys and Indians,” expansive and rugged landscapes, and remote outposts—in which the Western American art movement was rooted and which it also promoted.
