Indian Bake Ovens

Artist Ernest Martin Hennings (American, 1886 - 1956)

Datec.1924-1925

Mediumlithograph on paper

Dimensions16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Frame: 18 3/4 × 17 3/4 × 1 inches (47.6 × 45.1 × 2.5 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.32.36

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionSquare lithograph print depicting three figures in front of a row of conical ovens. Two of the figures are children while the third, who holds a paddle with bread in the oven, is older. A bare tree rises behind a low wall past the ovens and a mountain ascends in the distance.

Label TextIn the Southwest, the home often extends outdoors with freestanding ovens. Hennings portrayed the domestic activity of baking bread for the family in this print. The artist depicted the beehive-shaped adobe oven, often called a horno. That is the Spanish word for oven or furnace, and the pronunciation is OR-noh. The smell of food, like freshly baked bread or other cherished recipes, can prompt thoughts of home. Is there a food that makes you think of home?

ProvenancePurchased November 15, 1956 through (Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos New Mexico) 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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