Untitled New Mexico Adobe with Tin Roof [SOLD]

Novella King has been known for many years as an Albuquerque artist.  She and several other female artists opened a gallery in Albuquerque Old Town in the 1960s or so and featured their own works.  Two of the other artists were Betty Sabo and Carol McElroy.  I don't recall the names of the others but I believe there were five altogether.  Sabo and King were students of famous Albuquerque artist Carl Von Hassler.

Novella King often painted scenes from Placitas and Corrales as well as other surrounding areas of Albuquerque.  This could be a scene of an adobe house backed by the Sandia Mountains, or since tin-roof houses are more common in villages north of Santa Fe, it is possible that this is a northern New Mexico village with the Sangre de Cristo or Taos Mountains in the background.  Von Hassler often painted in northern New Mexico villages so it is quite likely that he took his students with him on painting excursions.

It is a remarkable painting and certainly one by King illustrating her advanced painting qualities. This is not the work of a student artist but one by an accomplished painter.

Condition: original condition

Provenance: from a family in Albuquerque