Desert Morning

Erna Lange


Savvy Price $3,500.00: Gallery Price $4,500.00

Title: Desert Morning
Artist: Erna Lange
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24" height X 36" width
Frame: Carved wood frame with applied patina and some wear
Frame size: 28 3/4" height X 41 1/4" width
Signed: "Erna Lange" at viewer's lower right
Date of creation: Between 1940 and 1984
Condition: Excellent, as appeared framed.
Provenance: K Cz

About The Desert Morning

(1896-1984) "Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Erna Lange became a highly respected female artist in the early 20th century at a time when successful artists of her gender were much in the minority.

She attended finishing school in Germany and then enrolled in the National Academy of Design in New York as well as Cooper Union and the Art Students League. She took private lessons from Cecilia Beaux, a much renowned figure painter. From 1924 to 1929 Erna attended the Academies Colarossi, Grand Chaumiere, Julian, and Billoul in Paris.

Returning to the United States, she settled for a decade in Elizabeth. In 1930 and 1932 she traveled in the West, spending a winter with the Papago Indians in southern Arizona on the San Xavier del Bac Reservation. She went back to the East taking more classes at the Art Students League and spending several summers at Woodstock, New York.

In 1940 Erna moved to Phoenix, Arizona where she remained the rest of her life, marrying John Babick in 1943, and dying in 1984. She had a studio from which she taught classes for many years, and her personal goal was to paint in all parts of the state. She succeeded and was prolific, completing many landscapes, views of missions, and western people." taken from AskArt.com

Lange is cited in the publication Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists (2012) published by the Museum of Northern Arizona.

One of Erna Lange's paintings is on view at Western Spirit: Scottsdale Museum of the West in an exhibit Women

of the Southwest: A Legacy of Painting until August 25, 2024.

Other Works By Erna Lange:

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