203 FINE ART is pleased to answer an age-old question: what is the difference between Robert Ellis and Robert Ellis? Besides a middle initial distinguishing the two artists (Robert C. Ellis and Robert M. Ellis), these two legendary modernist painters have consistently overlapped. From their use of the GI Bill after WWII, their time at the University of New Mexico, to choosing the small town of Taos as home and building international artistic careers that crossed the same borders, both Bobs have long deserved to have their individual stories shared.
Both initially enamored with the Cubism movement of the early 20th century, the Bobs transformed the fundamentals of the genre to fit their unique perceptions of the world around them. Their transformative journeys with Cubism eventually led both of these artists to one of their first muses— the country of México. Robert M. Ellis pursued his BA at the México City College in México City in search of the same knowledge that shaped Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Or
