PUEBLO PEAK PEINT PAR WILLIAM VICTOR HIGGINS

 

WILLIAM VICTOR HIGGINS (1884-1949)

Pueblo Peak  (2,631m - 8,632ft)

United States of America (Oregon / Nevada) 

In Taos mountains under Rain 1921, oil on canvas, RISD Museum

La montagne
Pueblo Peak (2 631 m - 8 632 pieds) est le point culminant du massif des Pueblo, une chaîne de montagnes des États-Unis située principalement dans le sud-est de l'Oregon et partiellement dans le nord-ouest du Nevada. La plupart des montagnes Pueblo sont gérées par le Federal Bureau of Land Management, Bien qu'il n'y ait pas de zone sauvage désignée comme telle dans ces montagne,  y voyager peut être très difficile. Le Desert Trail  qui traverse les montagnes n'est pas un sentier de randonnée aménagé. Le parcours est simplement balisé par des cairns rocheux qui servent de repères. Les cairns ont été construits dans le cadre d'une coopération entre le Bureau of Land Management, le Département des parcs et des loisirs de l'Oregon et la Desert Trail Association (une organisation privée). La Desert Trail Association publie une carte topographique pour les randonneurs qui donne des indications de cairn en cairn.
Le pâturage des bovins et des moutons dans les montagnes de Pueblo a commencé lorsque les premiers ranchs ont été établis le long du bord oriental des montagnes au milieu des années 1860.
Les mineurs ont été parmi les premiers à explorer ces montagnes. Il y a au moins 18 endroits où l'exploitation minière a eu lieu dans le passé.
L'énergie éolienne est actuellement à l'étude dans les montagnes Pueblo. Le test a permis à une entreprise privée d'énergie éolienne d'installer, d'exploiter et d'entretenir deux pôles météorologiques.

Le peintre
William Victor Higgins était un peintre et enseignant américain, né à Shelbyville, Indiana. Il a étudié à l'Art Institute de Chicago et à la Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. A Paris, il fut l'élève de Robert Henri, René Ménard et Lucien Simon, et lorsqu'il était à Munich, il étudia avec Hans von Hayek. Il était associé de la National Academy of Design. Higgins s'installa à Taos, Nouveau-Mexique en 1913 et rejoignit t en 1917 la Taos Society of Artists fondée deux ans auparavant par Joseph Henry Sharp, W. Herbert Dunton, Eanger Irving Couse et Oscar Edmund Berninghaus.
En 1923, il fonde la Hartwood Foundation avec Louise Harwood et Bert Phillips. Il peint alors de nombreuses oeuvres représentant la chaîne de montagnes entourant la ville de Taos et notamment les montagnes de Pueblo. Pendant la Dépression, il a été chargé de peindre une peinture murale à l'intérieur du palais de justice du comté de Taos financée par le PWAP, intitulée Moises, El Legislador.

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2022 - Wandering Vertexes ....
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PUEBLO PEAK PAINTED BY MARSDEN HARTLEY

MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)

Pueblo Peak (2,631m - 8,632ft)

United States of America (Oregon / Nevada) 

In Pueblo mountain, crayon conté on paper, 1918

The mountain
Pueblo Peak (2,631m - 8,632ft) or Pueblo Mountain is the highest point of the Pueblo Mountains, a remote mountain range in the United States located mostly in southeastern Oregon and partially in northwestern Nevada.
While there is no designated wilderness area in the Pueblo Mountains, traveling in the mountains can be very challenging. The Desert Trail runs through the mountains; however, it is not a developed hiking trail. The route is simply marked by rock cairns that serve as guideposts. The cairns were built as a cooperative venture between the Bureau of Land Management, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and the Desert Trail Association (a private organization). The Desert Trail Association publishes a topographic map for hikers that gives directions for orienteering from cairn to cairn.
Cattle and sheep grazing in the Pueblo Mountains began when the first ranches were established along the eastern edge of the mountains in the mid-1860s.
Miners were among the first to explore the Pueblo Mountains. There are at least 18 locations where mining took place in the past.
Wind power is now being explored in the Pueblo Mountains. The test allowed a private wind energy company to install, operate, and maintain two meteorological poles.

The painter 
Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.
Hartley began his art training at the Cleveland Institute of Art after his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1892.  He won a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art.
In 1898, at age 22, he moved to New York City to study painting at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase, and then attended the National Academy of Design. Hartley was a great admirer of Albert Pinkham Ryder and visited his studio in Greenwich Village as often as possible. His friendship with Ryder, in addition to the writings of Walt Whitman and American transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, inspired Hartley to view art as a spiritual quest.
Hartley first traveled to Europe in April 1912, and he became acquainted with Gertrude Stein's circle of Avant-garde writers and artists in Paris.  Stein, along with Hart Crane and Sherwood Anderson, encouraged Hartley to write as well as paint.
In 1913, Hartley moved to Berlin, where he continued to paint and befriended the painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. He also collected Bavarian folk art.  His work during this period was a combination of abstraction and German Expressionism, fueled by his personal brand of mysticism.
In Berlin, Hartley developed a close relationship with a Prussian lieutenant, Karl von Freyburg. References to Freyburg were a recurring motif in Hartley's work, most notably in Portrait of a German Officer (1914). Freyburg's subsequent death during the war hit Hartley hard, and he afterward idealized their relationship. Many scholars believe Hartley to have been gay, and have interpreted his work regarding Freyburg as embodying his homosexual feelings for him.
Hartley finally returned to the U.S. in early 1916. He lived in Europe again from 1921 to 1930, when he moved back to the U.S. for good.  He painted throughout the country, in Massachusetts, New Mexico, California, and New York. He returned to Maine in 1937, after declaring that he wanted to become "the painter of Maine" and depict American life at a local level.  This aligned Hartley with the Regionalism movement, a group of artists active from the early- to-mid 20th century that attempted to represent a distinctly "American art." He continued to paint in Maine, primarily scenes around Lovell and the Corea coast, until his death in Ellsworth in 1943. His ashes were scattered on the Androscoggin River. Most of his mountains paintings of Maine are nowadays in the MET collections.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

PUEBLO PEAK BY AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA

AKSELI GALLEN KALLELA  (1865-1931)

Pueblo Peak  (2,631m - 8,632ft)

United States of America (Oregon / Nevada) 

In  Taos Mountains covered by clouds  (Taos vuoret pilvien peitossa), oil on canvas, 1924. Kansallisgalleria 

The mountain 
Pueblo Peak (2,631m - 8,632ft) to Pueblo Mountain is the highest point of the Pueblo Mountains, a remote mountain range in the United States located mostly in southeastern Oregon and partially in northwestern Nevada. Most land in the Pueblo Mountains is managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
While there is no designated wilderness area in the Pueblo Mountains, traveling in the mountains can be very challenging. The Desert Trail runs through the mountains; however, it is not a developed hiking trail. The route is simply marked by rock cairns that serve as guideposts. The cairns were built as a cooperative venture between the Bureau of Land Management, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and the Desert Trail Association (a private organization). The Desert Trail Association publishes a topographic map for hikers that gives directions for orienteering from cairn to cairn.
Cattle and sheep grazing in the Pueblo Mountains began when the first ranches were established along the eastern edge of the mountains in the mid-1860s.
Miners were among the first to explore the Pueblo Mountains. There are at least 18 locations where mining took place in the past.
Wind power is now being explored in the Pueblo Mountains. The test allowed a private wind energy company to install, operate, and maintain two meteorological poles.

The painter 
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallen to Gallen-Kallela in 1907. In 1884 he moved to Paris, to study at the Académie Julian and became friends with the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Adam Dörnberger, and the Swedish writer August Strindberg.
In December 1894, Gallen-Kallela moved to Berlin to oversee the joint exhibition of his works with the works of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Here he became acquainted with the Symbolists.
On his return from Germany, Gallen studied print-making and visited London to deepen his knowledge, and in 1898 studied fresco-painting in Italy.
For the Paris World Fair in 1900, Gallen-Kallela painted frescoes for the Finnish Pavilion. In these frescoes, his political ideas became most apparent.Gallen-Kallela officially finnicized his name to the more Finnish-sounding Akseli Gallen-Kallela in 1907.
In 1909, Gallen-Kallela moved to Nairobi in Kenya with his family, and there he painted over 150 expressionist oil paintings and bought many east African artefacts. But he returned to Finland after a couple of years, because he realized Finland was his main inspiration. Between 1911 and 1913 he designed and built a studio and house at Tarvaspää, about 10 km northwest of the centre of Helsinki.
From December 1923 to May 1926, Gallen-Kallela lived in the United States, where an exhibition of his work toured several cities, and where he visited the Taos art-colony in New Mexico to study indigenous American art. In 1925 he began the illustrations for his "Great Kalevala". This was still unfinished when he died of pneumonia in Stockholm on 7 March 1931, while returning from a lecture in Copenhagen, Denmark
His studio and house at Tarvaspää was opened as the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961

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2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

PUEBLO PEAK PAINTED BY WILLIAM VICTOR HIGGINS

WILLIAM VICTOR HIGGINS (1884-1949)

Pueblo Peak  (2,631m - 8,632ft)

United States of America (Oregon / Nevada) 

In Taos, New Mexico, 1921, oil on canvas, RISD Museum

The mountain 
Pueblo Peak (2,631m - 8,632ft) to Pueblo Mountain is the highest point of the Pueblo Mountains, a remote mountain range in the United States located mostly in southeastern Oregon and partially in northwestern Nevada. Most land in the Pueblo Mountains is managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
While there is no designated wilderness area in the Pueblo Mountains, traveling in the mountains can be very challenging. The Desert Trail runs through the mountains; however, it is not a developed hiking trail. The route is simply marked by rock cairns that serve as guideposts. The cairns were built as a cooperative venture between the Bureau of Land Management, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and the Desert Trail Association (a private organization). The Desert Trail Association publishes a topographic map for hikers that gives directions for orienteering from cairn to cairn.
Cattle and sheep grazing in the Pueblo Mountains began when the first ranches were established along the eastern edge of the mountains in the mid-1860s.
Miners were among the first to explore the Pueblo Mountains. There are at least 18 locations where mining took place in the past.
Wind power is now being explored in the Pueblo Mountains. The test allowed a private wind energy company to install, operate, and maintain two meteorological poles.

 The painter 
William Victor Higgins was an American painter and teacher, born at Shelbyville, Indiana. He studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
In Paris he was a pupil of Robert Henri, René Menard and Lucien Simon, and when he was in Munich he studied with Hans von Hayek.  He was an associate of the National Academy of Design. Higgins moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1913 and joined in 1917 the Taos Society of Artists  founded  two years before by Joseph Henry Sharp, W. Herbert Dunton, Eanger Irving Couse et Oscar Edmund Berninghaus.
In 1923 he founded The Hartwood Foundation with Louise Harwood and Bert Phillips. He then painted a lot of works representing the mountains range surrounding the city of Taos and especially the Pueblo Mountains.

During the Depression, he was commissioned to paint a mural inside the Taos County Courthouse financed by the PWAP, titled Moises, El Legislador.