1939
Gouache on masonite
18” W x 16” H
D. Paul Jones’s artistic career, in terms of both production and exhibition, was largely concentrated in and around the Española valley area of New Mexico, countryside studiously represented in Spring Landscape. The artist would have been intimately familiar with the view: a mountain range on the horizon borders a valley blanketed in plowed and planted fields, where squat adobe dwellings nestle among cottonwood trees.
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Gallup’s New Deal art collection consists of over 120 objects created, purchased, or donated from 1933 to 1942 through New Deal federal art programs administered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support artists during the Great Depression.
The Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum features three types of exhibits, combining traditional and non-traditional approaches to illuminate academic, creative, and individual understandings.
Gallup’s New Deal art collection includes works by a demographically, professionally, and stylistically diverse group of named and unnamed artists.
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