Vibrant lush landscape featuring red-toned house among trees and hills
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Context
New Mexico Landscape, Taos is one of Van Pappelendam’s many paintings of the New Mexican landscape. The painting is built up from a warm and inviting color palette which depicts small cabin structure that rests on the edge of the foreground beneath a tree before the landscape recedes into the purple tinged mountains and foothills in the distance. Above the trees and valley large rolling clouds form from wide ample brushstrokes in greens and pinks, developing a sense of warmth and an untamed natural clarity that permeates the painting’s atmosphere. During her summer trips to New Mexico, where she spent the summers from 1920-27 and 1950-55, Van Pappelendam was known to frequently be accompanied by her younger brother where they would camp and she would paint the landscape. It is unclear whether or not the structure in the image belongs to either of them, but it is known that Van Papplendam enjoyed incorporating architecture into the landscape.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.15-17
Source or Donor
Arthur D. James
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of Arthur D. James
Notes
Collection of DePaul Art Museum; Gift of Arthur D. James
Made/Created
Artist
Pappelendam, Laura Van
Date made
1930
Ethnography
Notes
North America
US
New Mexico
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Location
BL/R
Transcription
"[Artists Name]"
Notes
Inscription Type: Green Paint
Lexicon
Getty AAT
Concept
natural landscapes, landscapes (environments), cultural landscapes, Nature, philosophical concepts
Hierarchy Name
Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), Built Environment (hierarchy name), Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
