1958, John Ward Lockwood, Autumnal Motion -- Phoenix Art Museum
From the museum label: John Ward Lockwood moved to Taos in 1926. In his early work, Lockwood imagined the Taos landscape representationally, but Autumnal Motion, painted in 1958, is fully abstract. His later compositions favored geometric arrangements of forms, which critics found were a refreshing departure from more conventional renditions of Indigenous peoples and adobe structures. Experimenting with watercolor, Lockwood progressively simplified his work, while retaining an essential dynamism. The brown shapes actively convey the fall season.
1958, John Ward Lockwood, Autumnal Motion -- Phoenix Art Museum
From the museum label: John Ward Lockwood moved to Taos in 1926. In his early work, Lockwood imagined the Taos landscape representationally, but Autumnal Motion, painted in 1958, is fully abstract. His later compositions favored geometric arrangements of forms, which critics found were a refreshing departure from more conventional renditions of Indigenous peoples and adobe structures. Experimenting with watercolor, Lockwood progressively simplified his work, while retaining an essential dynamism. The brown shapes actively convey the fall season.