Not on view
Summer Clouds, New Mexico
Artist: Fremont F. Ellis (American, 1897 - 1985)
Date: c. 1953
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 20 1/8 inches (63.5 x 51.1 cm)
Frame: 34 × 29 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (86.4 × 74.3 × 8.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Inscribed: SUMMER CLOUDS-NEW MEXICO (reverse on stretcher)
Signed: FREMONT F ELLiS (lower right)
Credit Line: Bequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Venue: Stark Museum of Art
Object number: 31.20.16
Accession Number:
1965.1.824
Label Text:The New Mexican landscape inspired painter Fremont Ellis. He found beauty in the desert with its contrast of stark, flat land to vast sky. He used active brushstrokes to portray the atmospheric effects of dramatic cloud formations, tinged by shimmering light.
Provenance: Artist; purchased August 6, 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