Resting, Home Trip from Blue Lake
Artist
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
(American, 1874 - 1952)
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Frame: 21 1/2 × 25 1/2 × 2 inches (54.6 × 64.8 × 5.1 cm)
Frame: 21 1/2 × 25 1/2 × 2 inches (54.6 × 64.8 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Nelda C. Stark, 1999
Object number31.24.70
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextBerninghaus depicted a moment when men of Taos Pueblo return from Blue Lake, a sacred place. He did not paint Blue Lake itself, leaving it unseen by outsiders. Through the title, the artist alludes to the significance of landscape for the riders.
ProvenancePurchased August 10, 1956 through (Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; by inheritance to his wife Nelda C. Stark [1909-1999]; bequeathed December 13, 1999 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
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