Los Cinco Pintores ("The Five Painters") was a group of early 20th-century artists in Santa Fe that included Will Shuster, Fremont Ellis, Walter Mruk, Jozef Bakos, and Willard Nash.
Fremont Ellis quit his optometry business in El Paso, Texas in 1919 and moved to Santa Fe. Will Shuster, who studied under John French Sloan in New York City, moved to Santa Fe shortly after. By 1921, Mruk, Bakos, and Nash all moved to Santa Fe, and the five formed their artist collective in 1921. At the time, the five painters were all in their 20s and new to Santa Fe.
In December of that year, the New Mexico Museum of Art presented the first of several exhibitions as a group. In addition to their Midwestern Touring Exhibit in 1922, they also arranged a show in Los Angeles in 1923 call "Exhibition of Painting by Artists of New Mexico".
In Santa Fe, the group found a mentor and teacher in Albert Schmidt, who had studied at the Chicago Art Institute and Academie Julien in France. These modernist painters were inspired by New Mexican people and landscapes for their subject matter. They disbanded in 1926, but each continued producing art separately.