Andrew Michael Dasburg
(American, 1887-1979)
Cordillera , 1968
pen and ink on paper
signed Dasburg and dated (lower left)
16 1/2 x 21 inches
Provenance:
The Artist
The Collection of Robert Ellis, student of the artist
Donated by Rosa Ellis Clark, widow of the artist, and 203 Fine Art, Taos, New Mexico
Exhibitions:
University Art Museum, The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, "Exhibition of Drawings by Andrew Dasburg", 1964
Andrew Dasburg rejected his traditional training, seeing the future of art in Cubism when he studied in Paris, and adopting Cezanne as his inspiration. Dasburg brought these ideas to Taos and shook things up with his powerful Modernist sensibility. In Cordillera, or "Mountain Range," Andrew Dasburg is sketching what he always sought in his art: the deep geometry of the universe. Here are the edges: of cloud and mountains, rock and shadow- the mathematics of nature in a formula determined over millennia. Your eye glides from broken line to broken line while your mind's eye creates mass and envisions a scene.
-James D. Balestrieri
Property being sold to benefit the Mission and Vision of the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Taos, New Mexico
Condition
Framed dimensions: 22 1/2 x 27 inches
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