American

Andrew Dasburg

U.S. 1887-1979
Mountain Landscape 47.0854

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After visiting Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century, Andrew Dasburg returned to the United States, forever influenced by the Cubists, the post-Impressionists, and more importantly, Paul Cézanne; with the result that he became one of the champions of abstract art in America in the following decade. Because of Cézanne's influence, Dasburg turned his attention to form and color, the subject matter of secondary importance. In the course of time, his works progressively changed from realistic renditions to more cubist abstracted work. Dasburg visited Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico for the first time in 1916, returning each spring to paint landscapes, eventually relocating permanently to Taos. This mountain landscape is similar to another oil painting Dasburg produced in 1926, New Mexican Village, which shows a cubist rendering of several buildings in the foreground and a vast expanse of rolling mountains behind.

 

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