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De La Cruz has been a full-time professional fine artist since 1975. He was the subject of a museum-wide retrospective at Denver s Museo de las Americas in 2015-2016. He is listed among the three dozen most influential regional artists of the twentieth century in a Denver Post survey of regional curators and proved the best selling artist at the first International Latino Art Auction in Phoenix, AZ. The Denver Art Museum s first purchase of a living Hispanic s work for its permanent collection was a De La Cruz. Years later, he was the only artist considered when that same museum wanted to commission a major, contemporary digital work commemorating the opening of its new Libeskind Building. De La Cruz was the recipient of back-to-back artist in residency grants from Colorado in his early career and received as well their very last painting fellowship. Other honors include award of Best Art Event of the Year by Westword Magazine and appointment to Denver’s Commission on Arts and Culture.
This is an original oil painting on canvasboard by American artist Jerry De La Cruz (b 1948, Denver, CO) from his “Unusual Atmospheric Conditions” series. The work is 9” high by 12” wide. It is framed in a gold gilt wood frame with hardware for hanging. The framed size is 13” high by 16” wide. The subject is a traditionally rendered landscape of the desert US Southwest. The sun has just set below the horizon. Most of the picture plane features the sky from a rich blue on top to a bright yellow at the horizon. A large bluff is on the left with smoke from a campfire wavering up a great distance in the calm. A cactus in the foreground spreads a long shadow. A few craggy peaks peak out from the distant horizon. The palette is predominated by yellows and blues with some browns and greens. The work is titled “Earth-4” and was painted of the artist’s ancestral home in northern New Mexico. It is in pristine condition and signed front lower left by the artist.
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