Ernest Martin Hennings (1886-1956)

The Red Gown

Details

Ernest Martin Hennings (1886-1956)
The Red Gown
oil on canvas
35½ x 29½ in. (90.2 x 74.9 cm.)

Provenance

Daughter of the artist.
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992.
Acquired by the present owner from the above circa 1996.

Lot Essay

Hennings once stated "New Mexico has almost made a landscape painter out of me, although I believe my strongest work is in figures." (Reginald Fisher, "E. Martin Hennings, Artist from Taos," El Palacio, August 1946) The model for The Red Gown is thought to be the artist's wife.