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Painting of adobe buildings including a church set against a plateau on the horizon.
Painting of adobe buildings including a church set against a plateau on the horizon.

About the Object

In this Southwestern landscape, a complex of adobe buildings fills the foreground. Rolling pink hills are set against a purplish-brown plateau in the background. A large white cloud sweeps across the blue sky, echoing the shape of the plateau.

 

Additional Information

A 1947 inventory compiled by Dasburg, and now in the Archives of American Art, reveals that this work was “painted near Chimayo.” The adobe structures relate most closely to early 20th century photographs of the Santo Niño Penitente church in Chimayo, New Mexico, about 40 miles north of Santa Fe.

The Artist;
Private Collection (student of the Artist), Woodstock, NY;
Charles Rosen, Woodstock, NY;
Mrs. Charles Rosen, Woodstock, NY;
By descent through the family;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

Dallas. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Andrew Dasburg. March 3-April 21, 1957, np.

Santa Fe. Gerald Peters Gallery. Santa Fe Art Colony. August 25-September 23, 2006, p. 31, ill. p. 51, pl. 24.

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).

Chadds Ford, PA. Brandywine River Museum of Art. Rural Modern: American Art Beyond the City (October 29, 2016-January 22, 2017); Atlanta. High Museum of Art (February 12-May 7, 2017), p. 100, 188, ill. p. 100, pl. 35.

Corpus Christi. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.

“Oil Paintings by Andrew Dasburg. List dictated by Dasburg at Ranchos, December 21, 1947.” Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson Papers. Biographical Material & Business Records: Lists of Artwork, 1947, 1977-1980. Box 1, Folder 10, Frame 1. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 29, 150-151, 263, ill. p. 151.

Watts Jr., James D. “Modern masterworks: Philbrook exhibit brings American masters to Tulsa,” Tulsa World, February 12, 2015, ill.

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