Editing Taos art colony (section)

===Other postwar artists===
[[File:Bill Rane, Woman Entangled c. 1990.png|thumb|upright=0.85|Bill Rane, "Woman Entangled" c. 1990. Oil on canvas, 60" x 48". This is one of Rane's best-known paintings.<ref name=THH/>]]
Other postwar artists such as [[R. C. Gorman]] and [[Bill Rane]] also made Taos their home.<ref name=TU/><ref name=Rane&Gorman>{{cite web |url=http://www.billranestory.info/id52.html |title=Bill Rane & R.C. Gorman |year=2007–2008 |work=Bill Rane Story |publisher=A j P Global Enterprises, Inc. |access-date=2011-05-31}}</ref>

[[R. C. Gorman]] (1931–2005) was an internationally renowned artist of the Navajo Nation, sometimes called the "Picasso" of the American Indian Arts. Even so, he was not accepted by the entire Taos art colony. Gorman opened "The Navajo Gallery" in 1968 on historic Ledoux Street, the first art gallery owned by a Native American in the United States. It contained a large body of his work and those of some local Taos artists. Gorman was a collector of art, such as works by European masters Picasso and Chagall, and local artists, such as Bill Rane, whose work Gorman identified as his favorite of the artist colony.<ref name=Rane&Gorman/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcgormangallery.com/the-gallery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803091959/http://www.rcgormangallery.com/the-gallery |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 3, 2008 |title=Navajo Gallery, The Gallery  |publisher=Navajo Gallery |access-date=2011-05-31}}</ref>

Bill Rane (1927 - 2005) was an artist and Taos gallery owner. His historic Taos gallery is maintained by his widow, Judith Rane.<ref>[http://www.billrane.com/ Bill Rane gallery]</ref> Bill Rane was born in Oregon, grew up in Idaho, and studied art and literature at [[San Francisco State University]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Rane lived and worked in the [[Bay Area]] of California until he moved to Taos, where he lived until his death in 2005.<ref name=THH>Bill Rane Trust, ''The Master's Hand: Reflections on Rane''. 2008, Taos, {{ISBN|9781436329088}}</ref>