southwestern portrait

new mexico precedent

archival record: figure: seated. posture: composed. iconographic inventory: wide-brim hat. chaps. rifle. frontier horizon. saguaro. blue shirt.
chromatic inventory:chromatic inventory: magenta (jacket, dominant field). cobalt (shirt). chartreuse (hand right). baby blue (hand left). teal and navy (boots). background field: sustained chromatic yellow. no earth tones. no raw umber. no burnt sienna.
the assigned palette of the american frontier is absent. the iconography is intact. the chromatic correction has been applied in full.

filed under: rogue colorist. chromatic subversion. chromatic gender critique. contemporary western painting. americana. figurative non-conformity.