Education
Bakos studied art with John East. Thompson at the Albright Art Institute in Buffalo, New New York
Bakos studied art with John East. Thompson at the Albright Art Institute in Buffalo, New New York
Bakos was one of Los Cinco Pintores, who worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He later followed Thompson to Colorado and taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. During his stay he exhibited some paintings together with Mruk at the Museum of Fine Arts.
The next year he moved to Santa Fe permanently and formed an artists" group called "Los Cinco Pintores" (the five painters) with Mruk, Fremont Ellis, Willard Nash, and Will Shuster.
Los Cinco Pintores was Santa Fe"s first Modernist art group and produced works that depicted specifically American subjects such as the New Mexico landscape, local adobe architecture and Native American ceremonial dances.