Ernest L. Blumenschein, Landscape with Indian Camp, 1920. Oil on canvas: 51 1/4 x 43 in.
The Roath Collection, 2013.137

height: 51 1/4 in, 130.1750 cm; width: 43 in, 109.2200 cm; frame height: 57 1/4 in, 145.4150 cm; frame width: 50 1/4 in, 127.6350 cm

In black paint, lower left: "E L Blumenschein"; In red paint, lower left: "E L Blumenschein Taos New Mexico"; On frame verso: "E L Blumenschein Taos New Mexico"

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Ernest L. Blumenschein and his family made Taos their full-time residence in 1919. His daughter, Helen, recalled that he began to produce “large oil paintings, all of them now more and more symbolic. Suddenly they were intense in color, three dimensional in their rendition.” Blumenschein often spent years developing his paintings. He began this work in 1920, calling it Trail Through the Canyon, and continued working on it until 1929 when he renamed it Landscape with Indian Camp.

Ernest L. Blumenschein y su familia se instalaron en Taos de manera definitiva en 1919. Según su hija, Helen, comenzó a producir “grandes pinturas al óleo, todas ellas cada vez más simbólicas. De pronto, tenían un color intenso, tridimensional en su ejecución”. Blumenschein solía pasar años desarrollando sus pinturas. Comenzó esta obra en 1920, llamándola Sendero por el cañón, y continuó trabajando en ella hasta 1929, cuando la renombró Paisaje con campamento indio.

Artist; Arthur G. Sharp, 4UR Ranch, Wagon Wheel Gap, CO, circa 1945; Allan R. and Clara Phipps, 1959; Gifted to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, September 18, 1991; (Owings-Dewey Fine Art), Santa Fe, NM, 2008; Henry Roath, Denver, CO, 2008; Gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2013

• Carson Pirie Scott and Company gallery, Chicago, 1920
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1920
• Kingore Galleries, New York, NY, 1920
• "Winter Exhibition"—National Academy of Design, NY, 11/15/1924 - 12/7/1924, no. 330
• "One Hundred and Twentieth Annual Exhibition,"—Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2/8/1925 - 3/29/1925, No. 377
• 5th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings"—Cleveland Museum of Art, 6/11/1925 - 7/13/1925, No. 5
• Grand Central Art Gallery, NYC., 10/17/1926 - 1/3/1926, no. 397
• Carnegie Institute, 1929
• Grand Central Art Galleries, NY., 1930
• "One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition"—The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1930
• "18th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by Contemporary American Artists"—Toledo Museum of Art, 6/1/1930 - 8/31/1930, no. 7.
• "American Paintings and Sculpture, 43rd Annual Exhibition"—Art Institute of Chicago, 10/30/1930 - 12/14/1930, no. 20.
• "Winter Exhibition"—National Academy of Design, 11/26/1932 - 12/21/1932, no. 254.
• "Landscapes of New Mexico and Arizona"—Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1934
• "Golden Jubilee Exhibition: State Fair of Texas"—Dallas Museum of Art, 1938, no. 4
• "In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein"—Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, 06/08/2008 - 09/07/2008
• Denver Art Museum, 11/08/2008 - 02/08/2009
• Phoenix Art Museum, 03/15/2009 - 06/15/2009
• "BackStory: Western American Art in Context"—History Colorado, 3/18/2017 - 2/11/2018