New Mexico Recollection

Landscape of a flat plain with hills along the horizon, small green shrubs punctuate the landscape and dark clouds fill the sky.

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

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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;
Private Collection, New York (Mrs. Charles P. [Adelaide] Kuntz);
By descent in the family to their daughter in California;
[Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV];
Anschutz Collection, Denver, CO, 1981;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, 1998];
Dirks Family Collection, Santa Fe, NM, 1998;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2008];

Reno, Nevada. Sierra Nevada Museum Art (now Nevada Museum of Art). Artists in the American Desert (November 29, 1980-January 11, 1981); Fresno. 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, AK. 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, Alabama. Birmingham Museum of Art. The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947 (September 11-November 4, 1987); New York. 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.

Tulsa. 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. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Santa Fe. 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); New York. The Vilcek Foundation (September 19, 2022-January 20, 2023).

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.

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.