United States
1897
Oil on canvas
26½ × 33½ in (67.3 × 85.1 cm) including frame
Provenance: Jim Jeter, Santa Barbara, CA
Signed and dated lower left: J. Ferraro Arizona 1897
The American Southwest attracted a range of painters in the late 19th century drawn to its dramatic terrain, expansive light, and the visual vocabulary of the frontier. This dated 1897 canvas documents the Arizona landscape at a moment when such views were just beginning to circulate among Eastern collectors and regional patrons. The composition places a solitary figure with a white horse against the open desert, anchored by the distinctive mesa formations of the Colorado Plateau.
Ferraro's handling of the scene is accomplished and observational, with warm ochre and sienna tones dominating the foreground scrubland and a pale, hazy sky suggesting the dry heat of the high desert. The figure is rendered with ease and informality, posed at rest in a manner that speaks to lived familiarity with the landscape rather than theatrical Romanticism. The painting is signed and inscribed with location and date, establishing clear documentary context for this early Arizona view.
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United States
1897
Oil on canvas
26½ × 33½ in (67.3 × 85.1 cm) including frame
Provenance: Jim Jeter, Santa Barbara, CA
Signed and dated lower left: J. Ferraro Arizona 1897
The American Southwest attracted a range of painters in the late 19th century drawn to its dramatic terrain, expansive light, and the visual vocabulary of the frontier. This dated 1897 canvas documents the Arizona landscape at a moment when such views were just beginning to circulate among Eastern collectors and regional patrons. The composition places a solitary figure with a white horse against the open desert, anchored by the distinctive mesa formations of the Colorado Plateau.
Ferraro's handling of the scene is accomplished and observational, with warm ochre and sienna tones dominating the foreground scrubland and a pale, hazy sky suggesting the dry heat of the high desert. The figure is rendered with ease and informality, posed at rest in a manner that speaks to lived familiarity with the landscape rather than theatrical Romanticism. The painting is signed and inscribed with location and date, establishing clear documentary context for this early Arizona view.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
