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(from 2014.Old Walks and New)
Helen Hodge, American (Kansas), 1870-1958
Untitled, c. 1928, watercolor on paper
In 1928 Topeka artist Helen Hodge spent three months in southern Europe, including Spain. This watercolor depicts the Portico del Partal, a section of the fourteenth-century Nasrid Palace, part of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Conquered in 1492 by Christian monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, the Nasrids were the last Muslim rulers in Spain. The Alhambra would have seemed exotic to American and European travellers because it was built in an Islamic style.