Penitentes
Date1920s
Artist
Willard Ayer Nash
(American painter, etcher, and lithographer, 1898–1942)
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 10 3/8 × 14 in. (26.4 × 35.6 cm)
sheet: 14 1/8 × 17 7/16 in. (35.9 × 44.3 cm)
sheet: 14 1/8 × 17 7/16 in. (35.9 × 44.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-15
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextA resident of Santa Fe from 1922 to 1933, Nash interpreted the New Mexico landscape through the lens of modernism. Here the figures are simplified and the architecture is interpreted as a series of interlocking blocky masses.
