A black and white etching of a desert landscape under an expansive sky filled with billowing clouds formed out of lightly rendered scribbles and scratches. The bottom third of the image features dark, flat-topped mesas and jagged rock formations forming a valley essentially void of any vegetation--just a few squiggly lines. A minuscule covered wagon traverses the path in the distance.

Albert Lorey Groll

Under Western Skies—New Mexico

About 1904–1941

Etching on paper

13½” W x 9¾” H

About this artwork

Albert Lorey Groll was heralded in his time as the “greatest of American sky painters.” Over the course of his career, he frequently depicted classic Southwestern vistas of limitless sky, bountiful clouds, and the repetition of increasingly distant mesas and mountains.

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