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Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (1874-1960) Church at Chimayo 16 x 20 in. framed 25 x 29 in. (Painted in 1929.) image 1
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (1874-1960) Church at Chimayo 16 x 20 in. framed 25 x 29 in. (Painted in 1929.) image 2
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (1874-1960) Church at Chimayo 16 x 20 in. framed 25 x 29 in. (Painted in 1929.) image 3
Lot 24

Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
(1874-1960)
Church at Chimayo 16 x 20 in. framed 25 x 29 in.

1 November 2022, 10:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (1874-1960)

Church at Chimayo
signed 'E.L. BLUMENSCHEIN' (lower left) and titled (on the stretcher bar)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in.
framed 25 x 29 in.
Painted in 1929.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Private collection, Irvine, California.
Private collection, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Christie's, New York, Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18/19/20th Centuries, May 28, 1992, lot 120.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.

Exhibited
Houston, Texas, The Museum of Art of the American West, Masterworks of the Taos Founders, September 10 - November 25, 1984 [the exhibition also travelled to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Gerald Peters Gallery].

Literature
Margaret Morris, Masterworks of the Taos Founders, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1984, pl. 10, p. 26, illustrated.
The Taos Society of Artists: Masters & Masterworks, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998, p. 34, illustrated.

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