Taos Woman
Della SHULL
(American, 1878-1961)
Taos Woman
Date1930
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineGift of Rowe Collection
Object number2022.48.1
Subject(s)
- women
- portraits
Collection
- 20th century American
- American
Sub-Collection(s)
- American
On View
On viewLabel TextThere is
regrettably little documentary evidence to chart the career of the talented
Della Shull, one of a group of women artists who studied with Robert Henri,
leader of the Ashcan School, and the so-Called ‘Eight,’ who exhibited together
at the legendary Macbeth Gallery in New York. Shull, who also studied with
William Merritt Chase, displays here the loose, painterly manner associated
with both Chase and Henri, who, in turn, were united by their stylistic
affinity for the art of Édouard Manet. We know that Shull traveled out West in
the company of Chase to California, so it is not surprising that she should
have also made her way to the artist’s colony of Taos in New Mexico, where this
painting appears to have been done.
