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Label, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, New York
Label, The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sandzén biographer Dr. Emory Lindquist wrote, “The decade of the 1920s was a great era in the growing appreciation of the excellence of Sandzén’s works. Laura Bride Powers, in the Oakland Tribune, was enthusiastic about an exhibition in San Francisco. After referring to it as ‘one of the big shows in the winter of 1920,’ she wrote, ‘It is glorified with color presentations of nature in her noblest aspect – the great planes of mountains rising from an enchanted valley-floor; strong-limbed tree lines against a brilliant sky that comes to gladden the earth in the fall and spring; sweeps of swirling water; mountain and plain in the purpling garments of lowering day – all tales of the West, told in strong sweeping strokes that never misfire.… How nobly he handles his color, fresh as dew.’ At the same time, the art critic of the Washington Star described the Sandzén exhibition at the Art Club as being ‘out of the ordinary and exceedingly worthy of attention.’
“In January 1921 Effie Seachrest reported in the American Magazine of Art about her delightful visit to the Sandzén exhibition in McPherson, Kansas. In describing one room of his paintings of the Rocky Mountains she wrote: ‘His big overpowering, structural treatment of rocks and mountains bathed in sunlight or flooded with moonshine, his glowing colors dashed on with an impetuosity that reminds one of his master, Zorn, arouse the critic’s wonder and admiration and cause him to cry: “Here at last is a true interpreter of the majesty and stupendous grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.”’”
PROVENANCE
O. B. Jackson, Norman, Oklahoma
Private collection, California
