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Stuart Davis, New Mexican Peak, 1923, oil on canvas. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art…
New Mexican Peak
Stuart Davis, New Mexican Peak, 1923, oil on canvas. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art…
Stuart Davis, New Mexican Peak, 1923, oil on canvas. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Museum purchase, 2005 (2005.15.1) Photo by Blair Clark.

New Mexican Peak

Artist (American, 1894 - 1964)
Date1923
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 22 1/4 x 32 1/4 in. (56.5 x 81.9 cm)
Frame: 31 x 41 3/16 x 1 13/16 in. (78.7 x 104.6 x 4.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 2005
Object number2005.15.1
DescriptionAn abstract New Mexican landscape painted in a white, black and gray palette. A large mountain dominates the image at center and has a speckled surface. There is a windmill at the left and a very rounded hill in the right foreground at the base of the mountain. The sky has two gray horizontal stripes at the top and a cluster of four puffy clouds in the right background.
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Terms
  • landscapes (representations)
  • Modernist
  • clouds
  • gray (color)
  • white (color)
  • mountains
  • windmills
  • wind power
  • peaks (landform components)