Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 10

Denise Mumm
Ranchos de Taos

2020

About the Item

Artist Commentary: This mixed media painting includes the back of the Ranchos de Taos church that Georgia O'Keefe made famous in her painting. My painting places the church in its environment. Where O'Keefe's painting is starkly alone, emphasizing its shape, I include a tangle of flowering vines growing next to a shady porch. Keywords: figurative Artist Biography: Denise Mumm was born in Munich, Germany and raised and educated in Iowa. She moved to NYC after college, remaining there until recently when she moved to Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Her mixed media paintings are inspired by scenes from her travels on land and by boat, by the persistent beauty in the details of where the human world meets the natural world. The settings of her paintings may be ostensibly mundane and unremarkable, but the beauty is revealed in the geometry of a boatyard, lush tangles of plants against manmade structures, and dramatic late-day light. Early on Mumm was a sculptor and even now approaches the creation of her mixed media paintings more as building them, rather than painting, putting down layer upon layer. They are acrylic paintings on wood panel with patterned or textured papers layered throughout with acrylic medium. She has employed this technique for about 20 years, learning it when she was a studio assistant for Miriam Schapiro. Mumm has been making art and exhibiting continually in the US since college, primarily in the NYC area.
  • Creator:
    Denise Mumm (1956, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Boston, MA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 702281stDibs: LU163429487502

More From This Seller

View All
Afternoon Repose, Original Signed Impressionist Still Life Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
Afternoon Repose, Original Contemporary Impressionist Still Life Interior Painting, 2018 36" x 36" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas Hand-signed by the artist. A cozy interior scene ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lines on Old Sailboat, Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: An old wooden sailboat was docked next to our boat at a marina in Solomons Island, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. I was fascinated by t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Dawn, R.E. Mayo, NC, Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: R.E. Mayo is a seafood and fuel stop on the Intracoastal Waterway in North Carolina. We tied up at the rickety dock there one night in early winter when we were ta...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Morikami Garden
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This mixed media painting depicts a close-up view of a flowering tree I encountered along the path in the beautiful Morikami Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida. I wa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Mooring Balls, Atlantic Highlands Marina, Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This humble scene is a few blocks from my home at the boatyard, early in the spring. The mooring balls are all lined up, lines and anchor chains at the ready for t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Mooring Balls, Great Kills Harbor, Original Still Life Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: I love the geometry of mooring balls, stacked boats and anchors and the tangled texture of chains and ropes in boatyards. The shadows of late day delineate them. ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

You May Also Like

"Bedroom Interior" oil painting of artist's living space, old Tuscan farmhouse
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This interior by Amy Florence was painted at Ben Fenske’s home in Tavernelle, Italy. This room is the setting of lots of Ben Fenske’s nude-figure paintings. You might even recognize in the upper right, a finished Ben Fenske canvas. Florence invites us into Fenske's bedroom with no pretensions. An un-made bed, an open wardrobe...
Category

2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Sunflowers" oil painting, rustic still life yellow flowers, blue and white vase
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Sunflowers" is a rustic still life of yellow flowers in blue and white vase. Amy Florence creates a dark interior that is brightened by the three sunflowers that casually rest in th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

Tropical Still Life with Green Pot and Ukulele in Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
Tropical Still Life with Green Pot and Ukulele in Oil on Canvas Vibrant still life by Santa Cruz County artist N. Weber (20th Century). There are ...
Category

1940s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Pansies" Watercolor Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant floral still life by Marilyn Simandle (American, b.1946). Splashes of color and white petals pop out against a dark background and glossy blac...
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

"Interior at Bens" oil painting of the home of American Impressionist Ben Fenske
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This interior by Amy Florence was painted at Ben Fenske’s home in Tavernelle, Italy. This room is the setting of lots of Ben Fenske’s still life paintings. You might even recognize i...
Category

2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"New Year's Interior" bright still life with a view in red and pink hues
By Kelly Carmody
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"New Year's Interior" is a bright still life with a view in red and pink hues. Traditional gesso base made with marble dust and rabbit glue. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exh...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board

Recently Viewed

View All