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Indian Village of the Acoma, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Tavernier, Jules 1844-1889  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Culture:
Indian  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Anschutz Collection Denver Colorado 80202
Date:
1879
Notes:
Cunningham, Elizabeth, The Anschutz Collection, 1987.
Cunningham, Elizabeth, "Masterpieces of the American West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection," Denver, CO: A. B. Hirschfeld Press, 1983, no. 29.
Summary:
View looking across the Acoma Pueblo built high atop a sandstone mesa, its village buildings surrounded by soaring peaks tinted pale pink as the sun sets in the distance. In the foreground an Acoma family watches the setting sun from the front of their pueblo, as other families on the terraces below prepare the evening meal.
Topic:
Landscape--New Mexico  Search this
Landscape--Mountain  Search this
Landscape--Time--Sunset  Search this
Landscape--Time--Evening  Search this
Figure group--Family  Search this
Ethnic--Acoma  Search this
Architecture exterior--Domestic--Pueblo  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68040015
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_382569