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The San Francisco de Asís Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, has long captivated artists. Ansel Adams was so enamoured that he developed the Zone System, a new technique in tonal shading that helped turn his subjects into icons, thus redefining America for the modern age. Georgia O’Keeffe, who started visiting New Mexico in the 1920s, painted Ranchos Church as an…

