Majorie Tietjens (1895-1987, American) original Wild Horses oil painting on canvas. Canvas is signed "M Tietjens '55." She painted widely around the state, with extended periods in Taos and Santa Fe. Her subjects included New Mexico families, life on cattle ranches, roundups and cowboys in the landscape, as well as church interiors, early adobes, and other historic structures. Many paintings were set in moonlight.
Tietjens had one-person exhibitions at Texas Western University (now the University of Texas at El Paso), in 1945, and New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, in 1958.
Other shows included those of Mansell's Gallery, London; West of England Academy, Liverpool, England; Welsh Academy, Bristol, England; Ferran's Gallery, Hull, England; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; Kocians Gallery, St. Louis; El Paso Museum of Art, Texas; Blue Door Gallery, Taos; Sun Carnival, El Paso; Roswell Museum, New Mexico; and Springville Museum of Art, Utah.
Size: 27.75 X 31.75" With frame
Condition: Frame needs replacing.
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