Ranch House Near Taos

Artist Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (American, 1874 - 1952)

Date1949

Mediumoil on hardboard

Dimensions14 x 20 inches (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Frame: 18 1/4 × 24 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (46.4 × 61.6 × 3.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.24.10

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionHorizontal painting depicting a low adobe house on a plain in front of low hills. A horse drinks from a creek that cuts across the foreground of the image outside a fenced yard. Inside the yard, a pair of horses stand to one side and a covered wagon sits in the other. The house has a few smaller outbuildings as well as fences enclosing other yard spaces.

ProvenanceArtist; by inheritance to his wife Winifred Berninghaus, Taos, New Mexico; purchased November 29, 1953 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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