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Self portrait (1882) Joseph Farquharson DL RA (4 May 1846 – 15 April 1935) was a Scottish painter, chiefly of landscapes in Scotland often including animals. He is most famous for his snowy winter landscapes, often featuring sheep and often depicting dawn or dusk.
Józef Chełmoński: Partridges in the snow, 1891 Richard von Drasche-Wartinberg: In Deep Winter. The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century. Wintry and snowy landscapes are very rarely seen in early European painting since most of the subjects were religious. Painters avoided landscapes in general for the same ...
Trees in the background are barren to evoke the sense of winter. [1] [2] [9] The use of greyscale in the painting, provides dimension to the winter landscape and the snow, with the whites conveying the snow, and the greys to accentuate texture, shadow, and slush from the snow melt. The background also blurred as to convey falling snow. [1]
It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a train crossing the Hoosic River, with figures in the village of Hoosick Falls, New York watching in a peaceful winter landscape. This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "The Hill lands of the Hoosick River ...
Influenced by the work of art historian Charles Moffett and curated by Eliza Rathbone, Impressionists in Winter was sponsored by J.P. Morgan & Co. and opened in 1998 at The Phillips Collection art museum in Washington, D.C. In 1999, the exhibition appeared at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Brooklyn Museum in New ...
Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (French: Les patineurs à Longchamp) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created during the winter of 1868. The painting depicts a snowscape with many Parisians, young and old, spending leisure time on a frozen park lake.
Paint at the depicted road surface is thicker than elsewhere in the painting, and impasto is suggestive of the feel of disturbed snow. [ 1 ] Most of Monet's Snow at Argenteuil pictures from the winter of 1874–1875 were painted from locations close to the house on the boulevard Saint-Denis (now number 21 boulevard Karl Marx) into which Monet ...
Russian Winter. Hoarfrost (Russian: Русская зима. Иней) is a painting made in 1969 by the Russian artist Nikolai Timkov (1912–1993). It depicts a winter view of Tver land, a picturesque corner near the Academic Dacha.