183
William Lumpkins
(American, 1908-2000)
High Desert Series, Azul, 1973
Estimate: $2,000-$4,000
Sold
$4,250
Live Auction
Western Paintings and Sculpture including Contemporary Native American Art Session I
Size
17 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches
Description
William Lumpkins
, 1973
(American, 1908-2000)
High Desert Series, Azul
watercolor on paper
signed Lumpkins (lower right)
17 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches
Property being sold to benefit the Mission and Vision of the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Taos, New Mexico
Condition
Framed behind glass. Dimensions:
Signature
signed Lumpkins (lower right)
Provenance
Provenance:
Donated by Addison Rowe Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Mexico artist William Lumpkins studied and painted with Peter Hurd in his early years, but it was seeing an exhibition of John Marin’s watercolors in Taos that pushed him towards abstraction. His time with the Transcendental Painting Group and Raymond Jonson helped shape his style, and an abiding interest in Buddhism made him an early advocate of sustainable living and solar architecture. You can see hints of Marin’s influence in High Desert Series, Azul as Lumpkins finds and brings out the abstraction in the landscape, presenting it in essential, kinetic forms.
-James D. Balestrieri