Snow Weather
Snow Weather

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Snow Weather,

1869

John La Farge, 1835–1910; born New York, NY; died Newport, RI
y1951-8
McEntee and La Farge produced work expressing distinctly different sensibilities, with the slightly older McEntee adhering to the established methods of realistic landscape painting and La Farge embracing a more modern, aestheticized sensibility. These two sketches embody this shift. Winter Sunshine is concerned primarily with representation, its brushwork serving essentially to delineate form. Snow Weather, by contrast, emphasizes facture—the painterly means by which the image is produced—wherein the work’s expressive brushstrokes seem of equal import to the scene depicted.

Information

Title
Snow Weather
Dates

1869

Maker
John La Farge
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
24 x 23.8 cm (9 7/16 x 9 3/8 in.) frame: 39 × 38.8 × 5 cm (15 3/8 × 15 1/4 × 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
y1951-8
Signatures
Signed and dated lower left: LaFarge 69.
Culture
American
Type
oil paintings, paintings
Materials
oil paint, panel (wood)
Subject
landscapes (representations), evergreens, winter, snow

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