Untitled
Artist
Cady Wells
(American, 1904 - 1954)
Date1937
MediumInk and watercolor
DimensionsFrame: 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequest of the Victoria Babin Estate, 1999
Object number2006.30.1
DescriptionLandscape with mountains, trees, bushes.eMuseum Notes
This untitled watercolor may be a depiction of the barranca, a formation of tuff or volcanic ash near Cady Wells's home in Jacona in the Pojoaque Valley. Wells mused that barranca had the significance for him that the Cerro Pedernal had for his friend and colleague Georgia O'Keeffe. This watercolor is consistent with the work Wells produced in the late 1930s in its reductive approach to form and its economy of line. Wells painted the formation from a distance from behind a row of jagged desert foliage.
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