Marsden Hartley traveled to New Mexico for the first and only time in 1918. He found the Southwest both inspiring and challenging, writing, “There is nothing in conventional esthetics that will express the red deposits, the mesas, and the Canyon of the Rio Grande.” Even after moving away, he continued to ponder the Southwest, later producing the New Mexico Recollections series, including this work, in Berlin. He reprised the subject in unconventional ways, using atypical colors and little detail.
Marsden Hartley viajó a Nuevo México por primera y única vez en 1918. El Suroeste le pareció inspirador y a la vez desafiante: “No existe nada en la estética convencional que pueda expresar los depósitos rojos en la roca, las mesas, el cañón del río Grande”. Incluso ya lejos, siguió recordando el Suroeste y produjo, desde Berlín, la serie Recuerdos de Nuevo México, que incluye esta obra. Luego retomó el tema en formas menos convencionales, con colores atípicos y pocos detalles.
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