"Northern New Mexico Village" Oil Painting [SOLD]

We have had small paintings by Carl Von Hassler in the past, but this is the smallest oil painting of his we have seen. It may be small but it is packed with imagery. It has just as much scenery as his larger paintings.

Von Hassler often painted on site in areas in Northern New Mexico. He particularly liked the small Northern villages between Santa Fe and Taos. The site of this painting appears to be at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just north of Santa Fe. Northern village houses have pitched roofs rather than the predominant flat roof structures further south.

In his early years in Albuquerque, Von Hassler's studio was in the original Casa de Armijo (now La Placita Restaurant) in Old Town Albuquerque. He is best known for his traditional realistic landscapes of New Mexico and his Indian portraits.

Provenance:  from the estate of Maurice and Cyma Maisel of the famous Maisel Company of Albuquerque. According to their son, Von Hassler painted this for his parents and presented it to them around 1960 as a gift.