Taos, Flowers in Henry Sharp's Yard

Artist Nicolai Fechin (Russian (active in the United States), 1881 - 1955)

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions20 x 24 1/8 inches (50.8 x 61.3 cm)
Frame: 27 1/4 × 31 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (69.2 × 79.4 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.28.4

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionHorizontal oil painting of a stand of aspen with bright red flowers interspersed.

Label TextA garden can be an extension of a home. Fechin painted a scene of the garden at Joseph Henry Sharp’s Taos home. He depicted the floral garden as seen through a veil of aspen trees. Fechin’s impressionistic style represented the flowers as strokes of color. Sharp and his wife Louise grew a profusion of flowers including iris, phlox, and hollyhocks.

Provenance(C. Bland Jamison, Santa Fe, New Mexico) [1]; purchased May 22, 1959 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 | 1. C. Bland Jamison purchased 13 paintings by Fechin from an unknown owner according to a letter to H.J. Lutcher Stark dated July 31, 1958 (see file 13-99), this was one of the paintings on the list.

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