Santa Fe
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- Created Date
- 1866
- Description
Known primarily as a painter of the Hudson River School, Whittredge made two, possibly three, trips to the West. These three scenes depict places he visited as a civilian sightseer with General John Pope's expedition through the Southwest. In the context of the larger history of the west, the underlying story of these landscapes is one of movement and change, of explorers and settlers occupying the land. Spanish Peaks shows the splendid vista toward the distant Sangre de Christo range as seen from the old Santa Fe trail crossing at Raton Pass, near the New Mexico-Colorado border. Santa Fe depicts the city with such topographical precision that key structures can all be identified. In sensitive response to the way Santa Fe's architecture echoes the wide landscape, Whittredge selected a severely horizontal canvas to record the New Mexico town's distinctive features, especially its horizontal buildings and open squares, dry heat and sparse trees, aging adobe walls, and Indian and Hispanic residents.
- Creator
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
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- Contributing Institution
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Collection
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Publisher
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Type
- image
- Format
- Overall: 20.3 x 59.1cm (8 x 23 1/4 in.)Framed: 45.9 x 84.5 x 9.8 cm (18 1/16 x 33 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.)Oil on canvasPaintings
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- The Yale University Art Gallery makes its photographic images of works believed to be in the public domain or with no known restrictions freely available. Please review the Gallery's image USE terms here, http://artgallery.yale.edu/
- Chicago citation style
- Thomas Worthington Whittredge. Santa Fe. 1866. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://search.openlibrary.artstor.org/object/AYALEARTIG_10312577123. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Thomas Worthington Whittredge, (1866) Santa Fe. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://search.openlibrary.artstor.org/object/AYALEARTIG_10312577123
- MLA citation style
- Thomas Worthington Whittredge. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://search.openlibrary.artstor.org/object/AYALEARTIG_10312577123>.