The Springtime Rainbow
Artist
Jozef G. Bakos
(American, 1891 - 1977)
Date1923
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 30 × 36 1/4 in. (76.2 × 92.1 cm)
Support: 30 × 36 1/4 in. (76.2 × 92.1 cm)
Frame: 38 1/4 × 44 1/4 × 2 in. (97.2 × 112.4 × 5.1 cm)
Support: 30 × 36 1/4 in. (76.2 × 92.1 cm)
Frame: 38 1/4 × 44 1/4 × 2 in. (97.2 × 112.4 × 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Jozef G. Bakos in honor of Teresa Bakos, 1974
Object number3098.23P
DescriptionAn abstract landscape of a passing storm. The mountain in the central ground is bathed in golden sunlight. A heavy sheet of rain is falling from a very dark cloud directly in front of the golden mountain. Homes, pastures, and a wooden fence make up the foreground. At the upper right are scattered clouds and patches of clear sky. There is a rainbow and black storm clouds in the left background.eMuseum Notes
Jozef Bakos came to New Mexico after the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919 temporarily closed down the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he worked as an art instructor. At the invitation of Walter Mruk, Bakos moved to Santa Fe and eventually joined Los Cinco Pintores. Bakos’s The Springtime Rainbow presents an eclectic combination of European modernist trends like cubism, as seen in the treatment of the architecture, brash expressive brushwork in the coming storm, and an almost impressionist landscape with its dappled passages of color.
On View
On viewTerms
- landscapes (representations)
- rain
- spring
- reflection
- meteorology
- refraction
- dispersion (process)
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