"Pedernal" by Bosque art teacher C. Carter Walker


Item Number: 154

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $1,500

Online Close: Nov 9, 2011 9:59 PM MST

Bid History: 0 bids

Description

A magnificent oil on canvas on board of Georgia O'Keeffe's Mountain "Pedernal", painted by Bosque School's own art teacher, C. Carter Walker.  Unframed, measures 12" x 14".  Carter painted this while visiting Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico.


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"In June of 1934 Georgia would visit Ghost Ranch for the first time, and knew immediately that she would live here. The ranch is located in a remote area approximately 120 miles north of Albuquerque. Among other guests to visit the ranch were, D.H. Lawrence, Charles and Anna Lindbergh, and Ansel Adams.

"All the earth colors of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands..."

Georgia purchased the house where she had been staying at Ghost Ranch in 1940, along with the view of the flat-topped mesa in the Jemez range, called the Pedernal. She jokingly remarked:

"It's my private mountain, It belongs to me. God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it."


 


 



Special Instructions

This item cannot be shipped, must be picked up at Bosque School.

Donated by

C. Carter Walker