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Description:
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Provenance:
Charles E. Minton, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private
Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mr. Minton was a friend of Lawren Harris while
Harris was in New Mexico. He accompanied the Transcendental
Painting Group, of which Harris was a member,
on painting trips. A philanthropist, lawyer, educator,
author and consultant on Indian affairs, Minton
also wrote books, such as The Spanish American
Song and Game Book, New Mexico: A Guide to the
Colourful State and Juan of Santo Nino. Minton
was the headmaster of the Santa Fe Country Day
School and practised law in St. Louis prior to
relocating to Santa Fe in the 1920s. This work
is part of a small group of significant transitional
paintings that Harris painted in the White Mountains
when he moved to New Hampshire in 1934. Importantly,
this painting would also be one of Harris’s first
paintings done in the United States. A similar
painting of the same size and media titled Mount
Washington, circa 1934, is in the collection of
the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, in
Hanover, New Hampshire.
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