Artist

Laura Gilpin

born Colorado Springs, CO 1891-died Santa Fe, NM 1979
Born
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Died
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Biography

Gilpin studied at the Clarence White School between 1916 and 1918 and was strongly influenced by a range of teachers: White, Paul Anderson, Max Weber, Bernard Horne, and Anton Bruehl. Returning to her native Colorado, Gilpin focused on many of the most spectacular sites in the southwest, including the archaeological ruins of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians.

Gilpin's view of Colorado's famous Pikes Peak documented a western landscape that increasingly faced modern-day intrusions. Employing the delicate tones of platinum and a shallow plane of focus, with the military airplanes given emphasis as three tiny black specks in the sky, she created a dreamlike landscape in which nature no longer reigned in solitude.

Merry A. Foresta American Photographs: The First Century (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996)

Works by this artist (6 items)

Charles Walter Stetson, Magnolia, 1895, oil on canvas mounted on fiberglass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1982.83.3
Magnolia
Date1895
oil on canvas mounted on fiberglass
On view
Charles Walter Stetson, After the Bath, 1910, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1982.83.1
After the Bath
Date1910
oil on canvas
On view
Charles Walter Stetson, Bathers by Moonlight, n.d., charcoal on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1983.65.2
Bathers by Moonlight
Daten.d.
charcoal on paper
Not on view
Charles Walter Stetson, Dancer Resting, 1882, pen and ink and watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1983.65.1
Dancer Resting
Date1882
pen and ink and watercolor on paper
Not on view