Oil on Canvas Painting “Cottonwood Sanctuary” [SOLD]

It has been said that Tony Abeyta paints landscapes from his emotional feelings.  He does not portray them as actual locations but as an emotional experience one derives from earth meeting sky, color predominating, rain clouds intermingling with blue sky, trees and plants responding to wind and memories returning of past experiences.  It is with this emotion that he painted this scene of a pair of small adobe buildings nestled among Chamisa and Cottonwood trees at the base of a mountain with rain falling in copious amounts from beautiful puffy white clouds.  It is almost a dream home settlement.

Such summer storms over the mountains and hillsides of New Mexico are dramatic, exciting, and absolutely spectacular.  Many New Mexico artists have captured the spectacle. Artists such as John Marin, Victor Higgins, Raymond Jonson and others have painted storms long in the past and Navajo artist Tony Abeyta has now drawn on his experiences realized while living in Taos a number of years ago.  Sometimes, his storms are illustrated with billowing clouds over purple mountains that occupy half the painting with rain showers in isolated sections just as they do occur.  It may be difficult for someone to accept such scenes are real but, New Mexico residents know that they are.

Abeyta is a very versatile artist. He is unquestionably one of the most talented and celebrated young artists of today. He has continued to expand his area of interest in painting and constantly has enlarged his field of expertise. He is one of today's most collectible young Native artists.

The painting is signed in lower right, also on back of canvas and is dated 2011-2012 on verso.  It is framed in a gold color wood frame.

Condition: original condition

Recommended Reading:  100 Artists of the Southwest by Douglas Bullis

Provenance: from a person in Santa Fe