Mountain Rancho (Rancho en la Montaña)

Stuart Walker, American, 1904 - 1940

1935

oil on linen

Museum purchase with funds provided by Men's Arts Council's Western Art Endowment Fund

2010.272

© Phoenix Art Museum. All rights reserved. Photo by Ken Howie.

American and Western American

No

Due to his early death at the age of 35, the work of Stuart Walker is less well-known than his fellow Transcendentalists, Raymond Jonson and Emil Bisttram. Walker painted Mountain Rancho for a New Deal agency whose administrators preferred realistic portrayals of local scenes. Composition N (reproduced on the right) demonstrates that Walker worked simultaneously in abstract styles. Painted the same year as Mountain Rancho, it was Walker’s first non-objective oil painting completed in his short career.