Untitled (Frijoles Canyon)
- Date
- c.1920–25
- Material
- Oil on board
- made in
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
- depicts
- New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- American Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 334
- Dimensions
- 18 × 23 7/8 in. (45.7 × 60.6 cm)
framed: 23 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (59.7 × 74.3 × 4.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of John and Susan Horseman, in honor of Melissa Wolfe, Curator of American Art
- Rights
- © Estate of Józef Bakós
- Object Number
- 95:2019
NOTES
A small tree stands amid a riot of strong colors and boldly outlined forms. This painting depicts Frijoles Canyon, now part of Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. Józef Bakós lived in the canyon for one year when he worked for the United States Forest Service. While most artists were inspired by the dwellings carved into the canyon’s cliffs by Ancestral Pueblos over 850 years ago, Bakós instead was drawn to the site’s otherworldly rock formations.
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