Herbert Dunton Found in an Attic!

Herbert Dunton "Sketch No.3 (Cottonwood)" 10"x8" Oil (SOLD)

This Herbert Dunton from the 1930s from found in an attic in Tennessee. We were lucky enough to get our hands on this excellent example of a 1930s on-location sketch by Dunton.

Herbert “Buck” Dunton’s cottonwood landscape studies from 1930s Taos reveal a late-career shift toward bold stylization and distilled form. In these works, he simplified the sweeping cottonwoods and high-desert light into rhythmic shapes and almost graphic silhouettes, capturing the spirit of the Southwest with remarkable economy. Painted during his final years in Taos, these studies feel both intimate and experimental, as if Dunton were searching for an essential visual language. The result is a body of work that bridges realism and modernism while remaining unmistakably his own.