Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico

Marsden Hartley · 1920

Medium

Oil on canvas

Original size

70.6 × 90.8 cm (27 3/4 × 35 3/4 in.)

Currently held

Art Institute of Chicago

Movement

Modernism

Marsden Hartley's *Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico* is a striking encounter between industrial reality and raw desert terrain — mountains rendered as bold, stacked forms beneath a sky that feels almost architectural in its weight. Hartley arrived in New Mexico around 1918, having already absorbed the lessons of European modernism in Berlin and Paris. What he found in the Southwest pushed his work somewhere new: the landscape demanded a tougher, more frontal approach. In this 1920 canvas, he strips the scenery back to essentials — flattened planes of ochre, rust, and grey-green that convey the physical presence of the land rather than its picturesque qualities. The mines of the title are almost incidental; it is the elemental mass of the terrain that commands attention. The Cash Entry Mine was a real silver and copper operation in the Cerrillos Hills area south of Santa Fe, lending the work a documentary grounding unusual for Hartley's typically symbol-laden output from this period. Our hand-painted oil reproduction is executed on canvas using the same medium Hartley worked in, preserving the texture, tonal weight, and colour relationships that make the original, held at the Art Institute of Chicago, so quietly powerful on the wall.