Western Taos New Mexico Antique Sun Beach Oil Painting

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Really stunning museum size and quality oil painting on canvas up for sale. I bought this piece at an estate sale on Long Island, it is signed E.L. Blumenschein. T is one other piece from this collection I'm going to list next week.T were a bunch of dealers and I was barely able to grab this beauty after waiting all night!!!!T is a small repair that was started on the canvas but not finished and some wave as well. Also a small amount of in-painting in the sky...overall less than 2%. Beautiful original frame to accompany this gem! Both seem to be from the 1930's.The painting has a vibrant glow to it and really would make a wonderful addition to any collection.I searched the name and came up with Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (his biography is attached below). I'm not sure if this is by his hand or possible a student, but the name seems to be original to the canvas under blacklight.In any case, it's one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever seen in my life. So bright and vibrant!! No Reserve Auction 43'' by 34'' on the wall , 37'' by 28'' canvas BIOGRAPHY for Ernest Blumenschein Facts/Data Birth 1874 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Death 1960 (Taos, New Mexico) Lived/Active New Mexico/New York Often Known For Indian figure and landscape painting, illustration Discussion Board Would you like to discuss this artist? AskART Discussion Boards (0 Active) Categories of Interest Illustrators Painters of Grand Canyon San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915 Paris Pre 1900 Taos Pre 1940 Western Painters This biography from the Archives of AskART: A founder of the Taos Art Colony in Taos, New Mexico, Ernest Blumenschein became one of the Southwest's best-known painters of pueblo Indian genre. However, this period in his career for which he was most known came relatively late in his life as he had strong academic training in New York and Paris followed by a flourishing career as an illustrator in the East.He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a prominent musician and had early exposure to both music and art. In Cincinnati, he attended the College of Music and The Art Academy, and then went to New York to the Art Students League. In New York, he supported himself as a violinist for the symphony and in 1894, played first violinist under conductor Antonin Dvorak.In 1895, he studied in Paris at the Julian Academy w he became a close friend of Joseph Henry Sharp and Bert Phillips. Sharp told them about the marvelous landscape in New Mexico and encouraged them to join him tIn New York, Blumenschein shared a studio with Phillips, and in 1898 with Blumenschein on assignment from McClure's magazine to sketch the Southwest, he and Sharp traveled to Arizona and New Mexico. They inadvertently stopped in Taos when their wagon wheel broke because it was the nearest town. This adventure, which led to both of them ultimately settling t, was the beginning of the Taos Art Colony, a group composed of eastern artists who depicted the landscape and pueblo Indians.Until 1919, he divided his time between Taos and New York City w he taught at the Art Students League and he and his wife, Mary Shepard Greene, worked together on illustration assignments. In 1919, having spent their summers in Taos, the couple moved t permanently. They moved at first into a small structure on Ledoux Street, but acquired more property on both sides and eventually lived in an eleven-room house. Mary became a noted designer of jewelry, inspired by designs she saw in the natural landscape.In the Southwest, his painting became brighter, and his earlier illustration style changed to one that was more mystical and intuitive of Indian subjects. His later work had especially dense pigment because he had trouble finishing work and painted it over and over. He continued to paint in Arizona as well as New Mexico, completing a work in 1929 called... read more

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