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Watercolor Snow Gallery
How Eight Artists Paint
Watercolors of Snow
Woods, Snow, and Brook or Road at Bottom
Lois Dodd (1927- ), American
Watercolor and ink, 12" x 9" (w x h), 2004
Princeton University Art Museum,
Princeton, New Jersey
Gift of the artist
Source Wiki:
Lois Dodd is known primarily for her observational paintings of landscapes, nudes and still lives. As the artist stated in an interview, "I would find it, see it, and say 'that's exciting' but I don't want to set things up." It's in her finding and framing of the everyday that something quietly original and deeply felt permeates the work. By painting her immediate circumstances, Dodd rejected the sources that others of her generation took as a given: mass media, popular culture, and the bright surfaces of a comfortable life.
Catching the Light in 2013 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, which traveled to the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, was the first career museum retrospective for Lois Dodd. It featured paintings that represented the places and subjects that have mattered most to her in her 60 years as an artist. They include views of New York City's Lower East Side as seen from her apartment windows, imagery from the woods and gardens of Maine, and some winter scenes by her family's home in New Jersey. The exhibition featured about 51 works that ranged in date from the 1950s to 2010s.
See the 2006 catalogue for Lois Dodd Recent Paintings, Winter HERE. See the Catching the Light Museum catalogue HERE. See her Extensive Alexandre Gallery page HERE.
Fires of Spring in Big Woods
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967), American
Watercolor and pencil on joined paper,
29" x 40" (w x h), 1951
Questroyal Fine Art, New York
For sale (2022): $435,000 USD
Gallery notes:
Regarded as one of America's most significant modernist painters, Charles Burchfield was known for his dark, eerie watercolor paintings of Midwestern cities and towns—and the rural landscapes and industrial developments at their edges. Drawing from subjects including design theory, European modernism, and Chinese and Japanese art making, Burchfield developed a unique style notable for its deeply personal symbolic language, distorted forms, and quirky, expressive elements. His early work exudes a sense of whimsy. The artist recaptured this fantastical sensibility in the 1940s, after a period of painting in a more realistic style. Burchfield rose to fame in 1930, when the newly opened Museum of Modern Art staged a show of his early work—the museum's first single-artist exhibition. Since then, he's been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Burchfield's work belongs in public collections across the United States and has sold for seven figures at auction. He's art is in the collections of major museums including Tate and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Snow Squall
Charles Herbert Moore, (1840-1930), American
Watercolor and graphite, 9" x 6" (w x h), 1865-66
Princeton Museum of Art, Princeton, New Jersey
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Huntington Moore,
the artist's daughter
Source Princeton notes, edited:
Moore's exquisite watercolor landscapes and nature studies were inspired by the teachings of John Ruskin, who singled out watercolor as the ideal medium with which to celebrate nature—specifically and accurately—as the embodiment of the divine. Created relatively early in Moore's career, while he was living in the Catskill Mountains, Snow Squall captures a wintry landscape at twilight, with the arc of clouds above signifying a passing storm. The same undulating forms reappear in the later and more minutely rendered Mount Washington, where the iconic New Hampshire peak rises above an idyllic valley as observed in late autumn.
Eragny sous la neige (Eragny under snow)
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)
Watercolor on paper, 12" x 8" (w x h), 1872
The Courtauld, London
Source Wiki and ArtUK, B. Luke, edited here:
Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas, now in the US Virgin Islands but then in the Danish West Indies.
Pissarro'S first forays into wintry scenes was at the turn of the 1870s, where he and Monet stood together just in front of his house in the Parisian suburb of Louveciennes and made paintings of the road of the Versailles.
Later, from the moment Pissarro began renting the house and farm at Éragny, 44 miles from Paris, in March 1884, he was enchanted. "I haven't been able to restrain myself from painting, so beautiful are the motifs that surround my garden," he wrote to his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel.
Over the following two decades, he repeatedly painted views from the farm and within the local towns and villages, as well as workers in the fields around Éragny.
Beside the Kupa River Embankment in Winter
Alfred Freddy Krupa (1871- ), Croatian
Watercolor and ink on paper,
Dimensions: 20" x 15" (w x h), 2018
Alfred Freddy Krupa (1971- ) born in Karlovac, Yugoslavia is a Croatian contemporary painter, master draughtsman, book artist, art photographer, and art teacher. He published New Ink Art Manifesto in 1996. Milica Jovic wrote in her article for Highlark Magazine that Krupa is considered the pivotal figure in the Western New Ink Art movement.
January Snow 3
Alison Nicholls, British
Watercolor, 15" x 10" (w x h), 2022
From her web site (edited):
Alison Nicholls is Signature member of Artists For Conservation and the Society of Animal Artists, a member of The Explorers Club and an artist member of the Salmagundi Club. Her art has been exhibited at the Botswana Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan. The US State Department used her art to promote the Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking initiative. She leads Art Safaris in South Africa for Africa Geographic and frequently lectures about art, Africa, wildlife and conservation. English by birth, she lives in Port Chester, New York with her husband, Nigel. See her plein air study and subsequent studio paintings of this scene with her commentary about how she painted them, starting with a plein air watercolor and moving to the studio for two more... HERE.
Snow
Lyonel Charles Feininger (1871-1956) German-American
Watercolor and pastel on paper, 13" x 10" (w x h), 1949
Sotheby's 2022 New York auction
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 USD
Source Wiki:
Lyonel Charles Feininger (1871-1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area. He was also a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for magazines and newspapers in the USA and Germany. At the age of 36, he started to work as a fine artist. He also produced a large body of photographic works between 1928 and the mid-1950s, but he kept these primarily within his circle of friends. He was also a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ surviving.
A major retrospective exhibition of Lyonel Feininger's work opened initially at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2011, subsequently at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2012. His painting The Market Church at Halle (1930) was prominently featured in the first three seasons of the iconic television show Bewitched hanging over the desk in Darren Stephens' office.
Near Vossevangen, Norway
Arthur Rackham, RWS (1867-1939), British
Watercolor on paper, 11" x 9" (w x h),
Sotheby's 2019 British auction of English Literature,
History, Children's Books and Illustrations,
estimate of four landscape watercolors,
$4,900 - $7,300 USD
Source Wiki and Sotheby's edited:
Arthur Rackham RWS (1867-1939) was an English book illustrator. He's recognized as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolor, a technique he developed because of his background as a journalistic illustrator.
Rackham visited Europe , mainly Germany, Switzerland and Italy, almost every year from the 1890s until well into the 1930s. They were walking holidays accompanied by one or more of his male friends. Up to 1908, five of them, Rackham, Keen, Hamer and two Andrewes brothers, customarily went off together. They called themselves the Funf Verein (The Five Club).
Rackham's 51 color works for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books. Through color-separated printing, it featured the accurate reproduction of color artwork. His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. His work is often described as a fusion of a northern European Nordic style strongly influenced by the Japanese woodblock tradition of the early 19th century. Read more about him and see his children's book illustrations at Wiki HERE.
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