Snow Flurries

1953

Andrew Wyeth

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

A hill slopes gently up and away from us, and is painted with a few streaks of white amid a field of earthy ash gray, fawn and rust brown, and muted olive green in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon comes about two-thirds of the way up the composition, and the sky above lightens from smoky gray to our left to icy white to our right. Short, vertical brushstrokes along the bottom edge of the panel create the impression of scrubby ground cover. Between two splintered, worn posts near the lower right corner, snow has fallen in two lines that suggest former wagon tracks that quickly even out, though they reemerge, also lined with snow, near the crest of this low hill. More snow is sparsely scattered across the rise of the hill. A second hill, slightly darker in color, rises to our right. Even farther away, another hill is covered in snow. The artist signed the work in black paint in the lower left corner: “Andrew Wyeth.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera on wood

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Margaret I. Handy

  • Dimensions

    overall: 94.5 x 122 cm (37 3/16 x 48 1/16 in.)
    framed: 114.9 x 142.6 x 2.5 cm (45 1/4 x 56 1/8 x 1 in.)

  • Accession

    1977.57.1

  • Copyright

    © Andrew Wyeth

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Margaret I. Handy [1889-1977], Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; gift 1977 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 to 1966, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Baltimore Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1966-1967, no. 64.

1970

  • Andrew Wyeth, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970, no. 22, repro.

1971

  • The Brandywine Heritage, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1971, no. 88, repro.

1977

  • Collection of Margaret I. Handy, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1977.

1992

  • The Land of the Brandywine. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1992, no cat.

1995

  • Andrew Wyeth, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1995, no. 23, repro.

1998

  • Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Anderw Wyeth, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1998-1999, fig. 74, repro..

  • Treasures of Light: Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1998, no cat.

2002

  • Milk and Eggs: The Revival of Tempera Painting in America, 1930-1950, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Akron Art Museum; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 2002, no. 54, repro.

2008

  • Andrew Wyeth: Emotion and Creation, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 2008-2009, no. 96, repro.

2015

  • Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio, Denver Art Museum; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2015-2016, no. 16, repro.

2016

  • World War I and American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The New-York Historical Society, New York; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2016-2018, pl. 153 (shown only in Philadelphia).

2017

  • Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford; Seattle Art Museum, 2017-2018, pl. 16.

Bibliography

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 262, repro.

  • Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 18, 20, no. 59, color repro.

1981

  • Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: color repro. 223, 249.

1988

  • Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 184, no. 69, color repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 385, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20194670

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