The Heidenreich Foundation is pleased to announce the inclusion of Carl Heidenreich’s painting Untitled (Mexico Series) in an upcoming exhibition at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University. The work from 1962 was included in a gift to the museum in February 2022.

The exhibition, titled Landscape and Abstraction in Watercolor, 1780–1980, gathers a selection of works on paper painted in watercolor from the Eskenazi Museum’s collection, charting the changing character of landscape painting between the 18th and 20th centuries as artists transitioned from the studio environment and strict representational approaches toward abstract landscapes, imagined spaces, and individual impressions of the environment.

Carl Heidenreich, *Untitled (Mexico Series)*, 1962. Mixed media. 22 x 35 1/2 inches. Collection of the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. Catalogue raisonné no. 2070.

Heidenreich’s work from his Mexico Series is a testament to the exhibition’s notion of abstracted landscape within postwar practices. The work, produced following the artist’s immigration to the United States, appears caked with opaque watercolor and gouache. The thin surface of Japanese paper on which he painted shimmers with angular planes of white, orange-brown, and ink black. It represents both landscape and atmosphere—earth and light—in a synthesis of Heidenreich’s impression of Mexico’s arid environment, landscape, and architecture; an approach he referred to as “luminism.”

The exhibition will be on view in the Rhonda and Anthony Moravec Gallery, Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, from August 5 – December 10, 2023.

Read more about the exhibition on the Eskenazi Museum’s website here.