White Sands

Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, White Sands, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, 1977.79
Copied Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, White Sands, oil on canvas, 25 7⁄8 x 32 in. (65.8 x 81.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, 1977.79

Artwork Details

Title
White Sands
Artist
Location
Dimensions
25 7⁄8 x 32 in. (65.8 x 81.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
Mediums
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Keywords
  • Landscape — mountain
  • Western
  • Landscape — desert
  • Landscape — season — summer
Object Number
1977.79
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1977.79

Artwork Description

Cyrus Baldridge and his companion, Caroline Singer, first traveled to the American West in the 1920s. They settled in Santa Fe in 1952 after Baldridge retired from commercial illustration. White Sands captures the sweep of New Mexico’s high desert country with only a few stylized forms. The natural formation---two hundred and seventy-five square miles of gypsum sand in the Tularosa basin of southern New Mexico---reminded Baldridge of the deserts of Asia, which he and Caroline had seen during the 1920s and 1930s.