Taos Valley
Artist
Victor Higgins
(American, 1884 - 1949)
Date1930-1940
Mediumwatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 18 1/2 x 23 in. (47 x 58.4 cm)
Mat: 24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.1 cm)
Mat: 24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequest of Helen Miller Jones, 1986
Object number1986.137.10
DescriptionAbstracted landscape with mountains, clouds, grasslands. Reverse side is a man tending a fish pond with village in background.eMuseum Notes
Taos Valley depicts the sky, Taos Mountain, and nearby valley as a series of angular forms and planes. In the early 1930s, Victor Higgins adopted an abstract approach influenced by colleague John Marin, who had first visited Taos in 1929. Higgins sought to capture the dynamism of nature, its movements, and its latent energies while maintaining a tie to naturalistic representation.
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