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Title:Taos Valley, New Mexico
Artist:Ernest Blumenschein (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1874–1960 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Date:1933
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:25 × 35 in. (63.5 × 88.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1934
Object Number:34.61
Inscription: Signed (lower left): E. L. Blumenschein
the artist, Taos, New Mexico (1933–34; sold through the National Academy of Design, New York to MMA)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Paintings Since Sargent, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 4–31, 1940, brochure no. 3 (as "Taos Valley").
Akron Art Institute. "America Paints Outdoors: The 1946 Summer Exhibition of Paintings Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art," July 2–August 1946, no. 2 (as "Taos Valley").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 3).
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," April 19–June 1, 1986, no. 35 (as "Taos Valley").
Kobe City Museum. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," June 7–July 13, 1986, no. 35.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.
Kleinburg, Ontario. McMichael Canadian Art Collection. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," January 30–April 17, 1994, unnumbered cat. (pl. 21).
Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," June 15–September 5, 1994, unnumbered cat.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," October 1, 1994–January 8, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Charleston, S. C. Gibbes Museum of Art. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," January 26–March 26, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Tulsa, Ok. Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art. "Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898–1950," May 16–July 18, 1999, unnumbered cat. (fig. 241).
Notre Dame, Ind. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. "Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898–1950," August 29–November 14, 1999, unnumbered cat.
Phoenix Art Museum. "Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898–1950," December 18, 1999–March 5, 2000, unnumbered cat.
Albany. New York State Museum. "20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 31–October 14, 2001, unnum. brochure.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890–1950," October 29, 2006–January 28, 2007, unnumbered cat. (fig. 104).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890–1950," March 4–June 3, 2007, unnumbered cat.
Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. "In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein," June 8–August 31, 2008.
Denver Art Museum. "In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein," November 15, 2008–February 15, 2009.
Phoenix Art Museum. "In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein," March 15–June 15, 2009.
Albany. New York State Museum. "Imaging the American West: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 9–July 17, 2016, not in brochure.
Lisa M. Messinger inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 30–31, no. 5, ill. (color).
Lowery Stokes Sims inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 18, 152.
Robert Rosenblum inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 10.
John Brandenburg. "Art Review: Philbrook Show Features 60 Landscape Paintings." Daily Oklahoman (May 29, 1991), p. 13, calls it "Taos Valley".
Eliot Nusbaum. "Joslyn Hosts a Vivid Landscape Show." Des Moines Sunday Register (September 22, 1991), p. 7F, calls it "Taos Valley".
Mary Ann Marger. "An Artistic Tribute to America." Tampa Bay Times (January 17, 1992), p. 32, calls it "Taos Valley".
Lisa Mintz Messinger. 20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, New York State Museum. Albany, 2001, unpaginated, ill. (color).
Emily Ballew Neff. The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890–1950. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New Haven, 2006, pp. 142–44, 290, fig. 104.
Curator Sylvia Yount details three extraordinary Native American artworks from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection that were recently installed in The American Wing.
Edward Hopper (American, Nyack, New York 1882–1967 New York)
1930
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