Fern E. Edie Knecht
Fern E. Edie Knecht
Street in Llano, New Mexico - c.1920s
- Oil on board
- Board 16 x 20 in.
- Frame 21.75 x 25.75 in.
- Signed & titled on reverse
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About the work
From a collection of works initially acquired from a member of the artist’s family, painted circa 1925-1929. Housed in the original Taos School frame. The painting is in excellent, clean condition. Frame is generally very good, with areas of loss and touch-up mainly around the outer edges.
Photo of Llano Quemado, New Mexico, circa 1940s. The position where Knecht appears to have painted her work is at the end of the road before it turns sharply downhill to the right toward Ranchos de Taos.
The scene in Knecht’s painting appears to be Llano Quemado, just south of Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. The partial wall on the right of the painting may be part of—or adjacent to—the Nuestra Señora del Carmen church built in 1864. The road that turns sharply downhill to the right from the perspective of the viewer is likely State Road 382 to Ranchos de Taos.
About the artist…
Fern Elizabeth Edie Knecht (1888-1979) was raised in Kansas. She studied with Robert Henri (1865-1929) from 1915-17, from whom she likely adopted the approach of painting quickly in a “slashing manner” to capture the strength of the moment. She attended the University of Kansas before studying at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts from 1922-24. Knecht was also a pupil of John Carlson (Kansas) and Charles Hawthorne (New York) during the 1920s. Her landscapes bear a strong similarity to Hawthorne in terms of style and palette.
In the late 1920s Knecht traveled west to study painting with Ernest Blumenschein (1874-1960), a founding member of the Taos Art Colony in Taos, New Mexico. It was during this period that she painted “Street in Llano.”
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