Yliaster (Paracelsus)
1932
- Medium
- oil on paperboard mounted on particleboard
- Dimensions
- 64.1 × 72.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-134502
To Americans in the 1930s, Mexico represented an ancient and deeply spiritual civilization much different from the industrial culture to the north. Artists and writers returned to the United States exalted by the myths and rituals that permeated the everyday lives of the Mexican people. Hartley made the trip in 1932 on a Guggenheim Fellowship, absorbing the primeval landscapes and surviving remna…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and by George Frederick Watts and Mrs. James Lowndes
Registry history
- 1932 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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