Plasterers of Taos
Artist
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
(American, 1874 - 1960)
Date1932
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions14 × 16 1/4 inches (35.6 × 41.3 cm)
Frame: 18 1/2 × 21 × 1 3/4 inches (47 × 53.3 × 4.4 cm)
Frame: 18 1/2 × 21 × 1 3/4 inches (47 × 53.3 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.30.3
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextBlumenschein depicts the labor of Hispanic workers in Plasterers of Taos. The composition of his painting seems casual, like a snapshot. Yet the artist carefully composed the scene with linear patterns and dramatic shadows. He records the important basic labor, like caring for adobe walls, that was often assigned to Hispanic peoples in the West.
ProvenanceArtist; gifted to Oscar Edmund Berninghaus [1874-1952]; by inheritance to his wife Mrs. Winifred Berninghaus, Taos, New Mexico; purchased October 8, 1954 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
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