Santa Fe Landscape
Artist
Walter Mruk
(American, 1883 - 1941)
Date1938
Mediumwatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 × 20 in. (37.8 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 14 7/8 × 20 in. (37.8 × 50.8 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Support: 14 7/8 × 20 in. (37.8 × 50.8 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseum acquisition, before 1940
Object number783.23P
DescriptionLandscape scene of rolling hills, brown adobe structure in center midground, blue mountain in background, light blue cloud in sky.eMuseum Notes
Artist Walter Mruk spent much of the 1920s working in Santa Fe but, by the end of the decade, he left New Mexico to return to his birthplace, Buffalo, New York. The date of 1938 on this watercolor, if accurate, suggests that Mruk either returned to visit Santa Fe or painted this scene from memory or earlier sketches. Given the character of the rendering, the watercolor seems to have been painted en plein air. Mruk captured the adobe buildings, farmland, and desert foliage with an economy of brushwork.
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Terms
- landscapes (representations)
- mountains
- houses
- adobe
- vegetation
