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Desert Evening
by Andrew Harmantas
Oil on canvas panel
Original Painting Image size 16" x 20"
Framed size 17" x 21"
America's Southwest became an unending source for painters back in the 19th Century when the railroads spread
westward. To encourage people to come west, the Santa Fe Railroad employed some prominent American artists to go
live in the Southwest and paint the area to show in the salons and galleries back east. So the artists' colony that
evolved around Santa Fe, New Mexico, became the strong point for contemporary American Southwest Art. The landscape
appears to be created for the express purpose of being painted. The colors permeate through the dry air, unfiltered
by humidity and industrial haze. Even in low light, the landscape is clearly defined, and that is what I wanted to
show in this painting. The setting sun is lighting the clouds, and they are, in turn, sending reflected light down,
onto the train and landscape. I may have missed out on being supported by the Santa Fe Railroad, but this kind of
scene is an unending source of material for me to do more paintings.
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