Untitled Painting of Canyon Road, Santa Fe [R]

Marianna Sloan was a younger sister of artist Joan Sloan. She studied with Robert Henri and Elliott Daingerfield at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1915, her painting ” Rocky Beach “ was purchased for the Pennsylvania Academy under a program set up to purchase works by promising but unrecognized artists. Among her numerous exhibition venues were the Royal Academy in New York and the British Institute in London.

There is no published information indicating when the artist visited Santa Fe and painted this view of Canyon Road. It is an excellent historical record of how Canyon Road in Santa Fe must have looked in the early 1900s. Besides its historical and ethnological importance, it is an extraordinary painting executed by a talented artist.