San Ildefonso Pueblo
Artist
Walter Mruk
(American, 1883 - 1941)
Date1928
Mediumwatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 11 3/4 × 18 in. (29.8 × 45.7 cm)
Support: 11 3/4 × 18 in. (29.8 × 45.7 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Support: 11 3/4 × 18 in. (29.8 × 45.7 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseum acquisition, before 1940
Object number782.23P
DescriptionPueblo, adobe village at left of image extending into center backgroud, brown dog follows behind man and women walking away fromviewer. Coyote fence in bottom right corner.eMuseum Notes
Walter Mruk painted this watercolor of San Ildefonso Pueblo during his final year of residency in New Mexico. Mruk had moved to Santa Fe in 1920 and was a member of the group known as Los Cinco Pintores (the Five Painters), which was founded in 1921 and also included colleagues Jozef Bakos, Fremont Ellis, Willard Nash, and Will Shuster. Los Cinco Pintores advocated for diminishing the perceived boundaries between art and daily life and sought to exhibit their work in non-traditional locations. Mruk, like his colleagues, worked in a representational style, although his interest in modernism led him to abstract forms to express his emotional engagement with his experiences.
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Terms
- dwellings
- pueblos (settlements)
