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Pedernal Evening
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20
$1,200.00 Available
I had been searching among the golden mesas of Ghost Ranch for a painting subject, and was about to give up. I turned around...and there was the Pedernal, glowing purple in the early evening light. With little time, but some of the best light of the day, I jumped into the back of my Jeep and painted until it the scene faded into evening.
The Pedernal is sometimes known as "Georgia's mesa". O'Keeffe was quoted as saying that God had told her that if she painted it enough, he would give it to her. It is a commanding presence in this Northern New Mexico landscape, visible as you drive south from Colorado, and from over in Taos. Yet it's not a big mountain. I climbed it once, and was surprised to find how quickly I could walk from one end to the other. The sunset light captured details that are often not visible, small rims of cliffs that scatter along its lower edges, making it all the more commanding sitting on the horizon against a New Mexico blue sky.
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