American
1940s
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Height 19 1/4" (48.9 cm) x Width 23 1/4" (59.1 cm) including frame
Provenance: James Jeter, Santa Barbara, CA; private collection, Tucson, AZ
Marjorie Tietjens (1895–1987) was born in New Rochelle, New York, trained at the Royal Drawing Society of London and the British Academy in Rome, and settled in New Mexico after visiting Las Cruces in the late 1920s as the wife of Paul Tietjens, composer of the score for the original stage production of The Wizard of Oz. She spent more than forty years in the desert Southwest, becoming one of the most recognized painters of New Mexico landscape, known particularly for her depictions of adobe architecture, the Organ Mountains, and the desert light of the Mesilla Valley. Chamberino is a small farming community south of Las Cruces along the Rio Grande, and the subject here is characteristic of Tietjens's sustained attention to the quiet, specific terrain of southern New Mexico.
The painting depicts an adobe structure at dusk or moonrise, the warm glow of interior light visible through a doorway set against a cool blue-green sky and the dark profile of distant mountains. Tietjens renders the rough adobe walls with textured, assured brushwork that captures the quality of earthen architecture under fading light. The composition is intimate in scale but expansive in atmosphere, the contrast between the lit interior and the open sky giving the scene a stillness characteristic of her best nocturnal work.
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American
1940s
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Height 19 1/4" (48.9 cm) x Width 23 1/4" (59.1 cm) including frame
Provenance: James Jeter, Santa Barbara, CA; private collection, Tucson, AZ
Marjorie Tietjens (1895–1987) was born in New Rochelle, New York, trained at the Royal Drawing Society of London and the British Academy in Rome, and settled in New Mexico after visiting Las Cruces in the late 1920s as the wife of Paul Tietjens, composer of the score for the original stage production of The Wizard of Oz. She spent more than forty years in the desert Southwest, becoming one of the most recognized painters of New Mexico landscape, known particularly for her depictions of adobe architecture, the Organ Mountains, and the desert light of the Mesilla Valley. Chamberino is a small farming community south of Las Cruces along the Rio Grande, and the subject here is characteristic of Tietjens's sustained attention to the quiet, specific terrain of southern New Mexico.
The painting depicts an adobe structure at dusk or moonrise, the warm glow of interior light visible through a doorway set against a cool blue-green sky and the dark profile of distant mountains. Tietjens renders the rough adobe walls with textured, assured brushwork that captures the quality of earthen architecture under fading light. The composition is intimate in scale but expansive in atmosphere, the contrast between the lit interior and the open sky giving the scene a stillness characteristic of her best nocturnal work.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
