New Mexico Landscape

Artist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943)

Date1919

MediumPastel on paper

Dimensions16 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. (42.5 x 69.9 cm)
Framed: 18 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (46.7 x 73.3 x 3.5 cm)

ClassificationsDrawing

Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Signedl.r., in image: Marsden / Hartley / 1919

Accession number ASC.2012.36

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Provenanceacquired from the Artist by Alfred Stieglitz [1864-1946], New York, NY; by bequest to Georgia O’Keeffe [1887-1986] (his wife), New York, NY, 1946; given to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1949; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (owned jointly), 2012
Label TextRolling hills, outlined in black, tower over a humble cemetery. Crosses and tombstones mark individual graves, though the landscape appears empty of any buildings, paths, or other signs of human activity. Marsden Hartley, an outsider to the Taos Pueblo and the Southwest in general, drew this scene during his 1918–1919 excursion to Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He revisited this composition over the years, manipulating the colors of the hills and the density of the sky.

Unas colinas ondulantes perfiladas en negro se elevan sobre un humilde cementerio. Algunas tumbas están señaladas con cruces y lápidas, aunque el paisaje parece vacío de edificios, caminos u otros signos de actividad humana. Marsden Hartley, ajeno al pueblo de Taos y al suroeste en general, dibujó esta escena durante su excursión de 1918 a 1919 a Taos y Santa Fe en Nuevo México. A lo largo de los años, volvió a examinar esta composición, manipulando los colores de las colinas y la densidad del cielo.