Painting of New Mexico Landscape by Walter Bambrook [SOLD]

There is nothing more typical in regional art than a painting of a flat-roof adobe house with a pitched-roof adobe barn with multi-colored tin panels nestled under a cottonwood tree with chamisa in the foreground and a mountain in the background. Von Hassler is famous for such scenes and so is his friend and student Walter Bambrook.

Bambrook was born in New Mexico and lived in Albuquerque all his life. He attended Albuquerque High School and began his art education at the University of New Mexico. While at UNM, he began his four-year art training under Carl von Hassler. After his formal art education was completed, Bambrook taught many private classes and groups at UNM.

Bambrook received his first award at the age of thirteen from a national art show at the Chicago Art Institute. During his lifetime, he received many awards from other prestigious institutions.

Among his favorite painting subjects was isolated Northern New Mexico adobe homes situated among cottonwood trees, and small clusters of homes in villages north of Santa Fe. This painting is typical of his style. It is an excellent painting and in original pristine condition.

Bambrook's use of heavy brush strokes and profuse paint is quite evident in this painting. His colors are strong and vivid. Unlike Hennings, Couse and other Taos artists, Bambrook and Von Hassler chose to capture the landscapes of New Mexico rather than painting the Indian tribes. Their canvasses are as much about recording early New Mexico history in reflecting early buildings and villages as they are a profound expression of the beauty of New Mexico in the early 20th century.

This painting is tranquil and at the same time rich and vivid in color. Colors gradually shift from warm yellows and browns in the foreground to more intense reds and blues in the background. The mountain reminds one of the magnificence of it size as it hovers over the small buildings and tree nestled below. This is truly one of Bambrook's outstanding paintings.

The painting is signed in the lower right. It is not dated. It is in original condition and is framed in a period frame that might be the original frame.

Provenance: Exhibited at the "Santa Fe Tribute to Carl Von Hassler" June 2009 at adobe gallery santa fe.