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Photography by Edward C. Robison III
New Mexico Landscape
Rolling 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.
ArtistMarsden Hartley(1877-1943)
Date1919
MediumPastel on paper
Dimensions18 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (46.7 x 73.3 x 3.5 cm)
Signedl.r., in image: Marsden / Hartley / 1919
Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
ClassificationDrawing
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
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 73× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.
