Western Landscape

Artist Xavier Barile 1891 Tufo, Italy - 1981 New York, New York

Date1945

Mediummonotype on paper, ed. 1/1

DimensionsOverall: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase 1993 General Obligation Bonds

Object numberPC1995.60.2

DescriptionA monotype in shades of gray on off-white paper depicting a desert canyon between two mesas. The tall mesas fill either side of the foreground and frame a flat landscape with distant mountains and a cloud-filled night sky. The image is painted with broad, expressionistic brushstrokes and thin negative marks.

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