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Home > Art > New Mexico Recollection

New Mexico Recollection

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Date

1923

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 12 3/4 x W- 32 1/4 in. (32.4 x 81.9 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2008.06.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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landscape Mountain New Mexico painting southwest
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About the Object

In Germany, from 1922–23, Hartley painted a series of Southwestern landscapes, which become known as his New Mexico Recollections and include New Mexico Recollection, 1923 (2008.06.01), and New Mexico Recollection #14, c. 1923 (2009.01.01).

 

Additional Information

Rocks in the Water, 1922–23, in the New Mexico Museum of Art, features similar dimensions and a similar scene done in a palette dominated by greys.

The Artist;
Adelaide Kuntz, Bronxville, NY, from the Artist;
Private Collection;
[Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, April 25, 1980, lot 242;
The Anschutz Collection, Denver, CO, purchased from above, 1980-1998;
[Rosenstock Arts, Denver, CO, consigned by above, 1998];
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, purchased from above 1998;
Dirks Family Collection, Santa Fe, NM, purchased from above, 1998-2008;
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, purchased from above, 2008;

Reno, NV. Sierra Nevada Museum Art (now Nevada Museum of Art). Artists in the American Desert (November 29, 1980-January 11, 1981); Fresno, CA. Fresno Art Center (March 29-April 27, 1981); Oakland, CA. Kaiser Center (May 15-June 21, 1981); Austin, TX. Laguna Gloria Art Museum (July 10-August 23, 1981); Little Rock, AR. Arkansas Art Center (September 11-October 11, 1981); Tucson, AZ. University of Arizona Museum of Art (December 5, 1981-January 5, 1982); Beaumont, TX. Beaumont Art Museum (February 5-March 5, 1982); Palm Springs, CA. Palm Springs Desert Museum (March 15-April 30, 1982); Littleton, CO. Arapaho College (May 15-June 18, 1982); pp. 12, 18, 38, ill. p. 12, fig. 3, cat. no, 2.

Birmingham, AL. Birmingham Museum of Art. The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947 (September 11-November 4, 1987); New York, NY. IBM Gallery of Science (November 24, 1987-January 30, 1988); Syracuse, NY. Everson Museum of Art (February 14-March 27, 1988); Akron, OH. Akron Art Museum (April 9-June 5, 1988); Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver Art Gallery (June 30-August 21, 1988); ill. pp. 146, 192, ill. fig. 95, cat. no. 57.

Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism (January 25–May 11, 2008); Forth Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum (June 14–August 24, 2008).

Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Extended loan. January-April 2016.

Lewiston, ME. Bates College Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. September 20-November 19, 2021, pp. 140, 146, ill. pp. 2 (detail), 138-139.

Taos, NM. Harwood Museum of Art. The Centennial Exhibition. June 3, 2023-January 28, 2024.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley Catalogue Raisonné: Landscapes-Oils, [circa 1944-1964]. Box 14, Folder 29, Frames 6-7, ill. Frames 6,7. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York. American 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Sculpture. April 25, 1980, sale 4365, lot 241, illus.

Hole, Heather. Marsden Hartley and the West. Santa Fe: The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2007, pp. 99-101, ill. p. 100, fig 84.

Carpenter, Courtney. “New Mexico: Best of the West, Modern Landscapes,” Southwest Art 37, no. 8 (January 2008), p. 38.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 26, 66-67, 69, 236, 266, ill. p. 66-67.

Abatemarco, Michael. “Assimilation Through Art: The Modernist Collection of Marica and Jan Vilcek,” Pasatiempo, September 25, 2015, p. 39.

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