Loren Mozley
Artist
Andrew Dasburg
(American, 1887 - 1979)
Date1928
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 40 1/8 x 26 1/8 inches (101.92 x 66.36 cm)
Framed: 44 3/8 x 30 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches (112.71 x 77.47 x 4.45 cm)
Framed: 44 3/8 x 30 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches (112.71 x 77.47 x 4.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Hollander
Object number59-41
SignedSigned lower left: Dasburg.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionFrontal figure of black-haired and mustachioed man seated on green bench before flat grey background, wearing open-collared white shirt, blue and red plaid jacket, over pink sweater with blue trim, grey trousers. Hands resting between legs, seen a little more than knee-length.Gallery Label
An artist’s creative
decisions shape the portraits they paint. Andrew Dasburg began this painting as
a portrait of a ranch worker in Taos, New Mexico. When the worker moved away,
Dasburg asked his former student Loren Mozley to model. Mozley remembered
posing in front of a quilt, but Dasburg ultimately decided to paint him before
a simple, gray backdrop. Mozley’s checkered jacket stands out because of this
choice. Its pattern likely interested the artist who included similar abstract
arrangements in other paintings.
Exhibition by Andrew Dasburg, exh. cat. (New York: Frank K. M.
Rehn Galleries, 1928), unpaginated (as Laurent Mozley); Elisabeth
Luther Cary, “Savant and Primitive: Progression through Cubistic
Influences to Personal Expression—A Delicate Art,” New York
Times, 18 March 1928, X14 (as Laurent Mazely); Catalogue of the
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting
and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, 1939), unpaginated; Jerry Bywaters, Andrew Das
burg, exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1957), unpagi
nated (as Portrait of Loren Mozley); NAMA 1973, 251; Van Deren
Coke, Andrew Dasburg, 1887–1979: A Retrospective Exhibition,
exh. cat. (Albuquerque: Art Museum, University of New Mexico
Press, 1979), 6 (as Portrait of Loren Mozley); Van Deren Coke,
Andrew Dasburg (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
1979), viii, 79–82, 138; Sheldon Reich, Andrew Dasburg: His Life
and Art (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1989), 56–57;
NAMA 1991, 169; Journal of the American Medical Association
274 (6 September 1995), 673, 676, cover.
Rehn Galleries, 1928), unpaginated (as Laurent Mozley); Elisabeth
Luther Cary, “Savant and Primitive: Progression through Cubistic
Influences to Personal Expression—A Delicate Art,” New York
Times, 18 March 1928, X14 (as Laurent Mazely); Catalogue of the
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting
and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, 1939), unpaginated; Jerry Bywaters, Andrew Das
burg, exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1957), unpagi
nated (as Portrait of Loren Mozley); NAMA 1973, 251; Van Deren
Coke, Andrew Dasburg, 1887–1979: A Retrospective Exhibition,
exh. cat. (Albuquerque: Art Museum, University of New Mexico
Press, 1979), 6 (as Portrait of Loren Mozley); Van Deren Coke,
Andrew Dasburg (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
1979), viii, 79–82, 138; Sheldon Reich, Andrew Dasburg: His Life
and Art (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1989), 56–57;
NAMA 1991, 169; Journal of the American Medical Association
274 (6 September 1995), 673, 676, cover.
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