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Painting of the Day, 31 October, 2011

DateMonday, October 31, 2011 at 8:19PM

By Donna Poulton

E. Martin Hennings studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and later in Germany before a commission took him to Taos, New Mexico where he ultimately settled. His exposure to the German Jugenstil also known as Art Nouveau seems to have influenced his landscape style in which the visual plane is flattened and the natural environment is patterned and curved. He was especially interested in the New Mexico Indians and painted them in nature for the remainder of his career.

Credit: wetcanvas.com

E. Martin Hennings (1886 – 1956), Riders at Sunset, (c.1935), oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in. Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of Arvin Gottlieb 1991.205.11

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