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Artist:
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Edgar Payne
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Title:
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Canyon Portal
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Date:
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c. 1935
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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24 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (62.23 x 74.93 cm) (sight)
32 x 37 x 1 1/2 in. (81.28 x 93.98 x 3.81 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The Julia B. Bigelow Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 301
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Aside from a brief period of formal instruction at the Art Institute of Chicago, Edgar Payne was largely self-taught but progressed eventually from sign and mural painting to a very successful career as a California Impressionist plein-air landscape painter.
Scenes from the Sierra Nevada and desert canyons of Arizona and New Mexico are his most recognizable subject matter and Canyon Portal itself stems from one of his many visits to his favorite landscape location, the Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona. The portals of sheer red sandstone cliffs mark the beginning of 18 tortuous miles of desert canyon.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Payne, Edgar
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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American, 1883 - 1947
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature, Inscription and Labels in brown oil at lower left corner: [Edgar Payne]; back stretcher has inscription; two labels on back
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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two large mountains in warm oranges and purples with small valley in central part of painting; two small riders on horseback in middle ground toward the left; blue sky with white clouds; back stretcher has writing and back has two labels
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Accession #:
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2006.84
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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