New Town, Albuquerque
Artist
Leon Trousset
(1838 France - 1917 Juarez, Mexico)
Date1885
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions32 x 74 in. (81.3 x 188 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Jim McCanna
Object numberPC1994.26.1
DescriptionLandscape, horizontal format, sunset scene looking west from the sandhills below the Mesa east of Albuquerque, overlooking the New Town district, railroad and Old Town to the bosque and Rio Grande and mountains to the west. Trousset painted the railroad boomtown from the East Mesa sandhills, facing west. He traveled from city to city painting familiar scenes, then selling copies in order to make a living.
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Terms
ca. 1900
ca. 1895
ca. 1950