Sandstorm
- Date
- 1947
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- Mexico, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 212
- Dimensions
- 35 1/8 x 57 1/2 in. (89.2 x 146.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
- Rights
- © Estate of Alice Rahon
- Object Number
- 240:1954
NOTES
“Sandstorm coincides with my discovery of the Mexican landscape—I made a series of landscapes where I tried to give that impression of infinite space, and dramatic scale where humans are too small to be visible.” Alice Rahon
A large, hot sun peeks through the storm, hanging low over Mesoamerican pyramids and a herd of livestock. Alice Rahon was an accomplished poet and artist who traveled to Mexico in 1939 to escape the outbreak of World War II (1939–1945) and made it her permanent home.
A large, hot sun peeks through the storm, hanging low over Mesoamerican pyramids and a herd of livestock. Alice Rahon was an accomplished poet and artist who traveled to Mexico in 1939 to escape the outbreak of World War II (1939–1945) and made it her permanent home.
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