sentences:  Dadaist Max Ernst and Surrealist Dorothea Tanning arrived from New York in the late 1940s, when the town was populated by less than 500 ranchers, orchard workers, merchants, and small Native American communities.Amid the Wild West setting, Ernst built a small cottage by hand in Brewer Road, and he and Tanning hosted intellectuals and European artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Yves Tanguy.Sedona proved an inspiration for the artists, and for Ernst—who compiled his book "Beyond Painting" and completed his sculptural masterpiece "Capricorn" while living there.