(New York, 1887-1979)

Mountains near Ensenada, signed lower right "Cowles" and signed and titled verso, oil on plywood, 30 x 40 in.; original pickled wood frame, 33 x 43 in.

While living in Sante Fe, New Mexico during the early 1930s, Cowles associated with artists such as John Marin, Marsden Hartley and Andrew Dasberg, each early American Abstract Expressionists drawn to the area and Taos. This period marks a time when American abstract expressionist artists were gaining world-wide notoriety and laying the groundwork for the modern art movement of the mid twentieth century.