Winter Scene

Artist Nicolai Fechin (Russian (active in the United States), 1881 - 1955)

Datec. 1927-1933

Mediumoil on canvas mounted on stretched canvas

Dimensions15 × 25 inches (38.1 × 63.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 2 1/8 inches (57.2 × 82.6 × 5.5 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.28.32

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextFechin found Taos, New Mexico, to be an inspiring setting. He visited in 1926 and settled there the next year. With his landscape paintings, he often responded to the subtleties of the region. His daughter explained that Fechin approached a canvas as an exciting space. He believed the job of the artist was to fill the space harmoniously and with balance. In Winter Scene, he painted with a progression of colors. The white of the snow, the buff-colored bushes and adobes, the purple mountains, and purplish-gray, cloudy sky are like notes in a musical chord.

Provenance(C. Bland Jamison, Santa Fe, New Mexico) [1]; Purchased May 22, 1959 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art | 1. C. Bland Jamison purchased 13 paintings by Fechin from an unknown owner according to a letter to H.J. Lutcher Stark dated July 31, 1958 (see file 13-99), this was one of the paintings on the list.

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