I saw this painting on display at the Laguna Beach Art Museum back in 2014 and my first thought was that it was a Georgia O'Keeffe. I was wrong, the artist is Anna Katherine Skeele (1886-1963). Skeele was born in Ohio and moved to New York as a young woman to study art. She spent time in Florence Italy studying art history and finally moved to California and attended art classes at the California School of Fine Arts. She soon began teaching art at Pomona College.
She spent time in the southwest and became fascinated by the people and the places there. This painting is called "Rancho Church" and it depicts the San Francisco de Asis Mission in Taos New Mexico, a subject that was also painted by Georgia O'Keeffe among others and photographed by Ansel Adams.
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Wow, what a beautiful painting, it's easy to see why you thought it was an O'Keeffe. The colours and the light are just stunning. It's so interesting to learn about another artist who was inspired by the same landscape. I just shared a new post.
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