277 Frank Archuleta,Taos Indian with Rifle

Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 200,000.00 USD
Estimated at 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD
Frank Archuleta,Taos Indian with Rifle
Artist: Ufer, WalterDate of Birth: 1876-1936
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 x 30 inches
Signed: Signed lower center
Verso:

Though his family migrated to the United States when he was two years old, Walter Ufer told everyone he was born here. Ufer took great pride in being an American and came to have a strong feelings about a bright future for American art and the central role that Taos would play. In 1928, in a letter Ufer printed in the catalogue for his exhibition at New York’s Macbeth Gallery, Ufer wrote, “I believe that if America gets a National Art it will come more from the Southwest than from the Atlantic Board. Because we are really different from Europeans, and the farther away from European influence, the better for us.” The son of a master engraver, Ufer came to painting after an apprenticeship in lithography. He viewed the world through the lenses of class and race and was deeply sympathetic to the plight of working people, a sympathy that would extend to Native Americans in Taos. As a result, Ufer often places us close to his subjects, with them, among them. They often look back at us with frank expressions as if our gaze interrupts them at their labors.