Ilse Lanphere Mykonos Chora Streetscape Oil on Panel — Las Cruces, NM Artist View Watchlist >
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System ID # 29694291
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Ilse Lanphere Mykonos Chora Streetscape Oil on Panel — Las Cruces, NM Artist
A whitewashed Cycladic streetscape by Ilse Elizabeth Stauff Lanphere (German-born, Las Cruces, New Mexico), rendered in oil on panel and signed lower right with her painted black monogram "ILSE." The composition gathers the visual shorthand of the Mykonos Chora district — a thatched-cap windmill with its spoked spar frame against a hard cobalt sky, stacked plaster volumes, blue and orange doors, and a stepped terrace descending toward a vendor working his donkey cart of oranges and greens. A woman in red leans from a blue balustrade above; grapevine spills across the pergola. The light is studied rather than decorative, with warm reflected tone worked into the shadowed stair treads.
Lanphere was a self-taught painter who settled in Las Cruces in 1960 and remained there through her active career, her work circulating largely within private collections in Doña Ana County. Where many mid-century genre painters leaned picturesque, her structures hold their ground: measured brushwork, confident spatial handling, and architectural rendering accurate to the district she depicts. This panel comes from a Las Cruces-area consignor, consistent with that local provenance pattern.
CONDITION
Good. The painted surface is stable with measured impasto intact throughout. Scuffing present; the linen liner mat shows staining and light soiling at the borders. Housed in a wood frame with linen liner, no glass.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall (framed): 29 3/8" H × 22 3/8" W × 1 3/4" D
- Visible image: 19 1/2" H × 15 1/2" W
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Signature: "ILSE" monogram, black paint, lower right
- Frame: Wood with linen liner mat; no glass
