Original Charcoal Sketch "New Mexico Village Church" [SOLD]

Carl Von Hassler was fond of painting villages and landscapes of Northern New Mexico. This drawing is one of the earliest dated pieces of his work we have had. He moved to New Mexico in the early 1920s and established his studio in Albuquerque’s Old Town. For 47 years, he painted New Mexico scenes and became an Albuquerque legend. Almost everyone living in Albuquerque in the 1920s through the 1960s knew him and had a story they could relate about him.

The image in this drawing is certainly a mission church in the northern part of the state. The image is signed Von Hassler and dated ’36 in lower left. The image is in original excellent condition; however it has not been examined out of frame. It is framed in a very elaborate period frame that itself is in excellent condition.

Provenance: from the collection of a Santa Fe resident.