First Snow
Artist
Adolf Arthur Dehn
(American, 1895 - 1968)
Date1957
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions20 x 28 1/2 in.
ClassificationsWatercolor
Credit LineStephen B. Lawrence Fund
Terms
Object number1960.04
Description"First Snow" depicts a sprawling city park set in winter, presumably after the first snow. The cool color palette is dotted with hints of reds in the people's cold faces and winter coats. The city's skyline decorates the background while tiny figures pepper the park's trails and benches. They are indiscernible figures whose bodies are too small for any distinguishable facial features or details. Instead, the viewer's eyes are focused on the black trees that line the foreground. Bare and stripped of all leaves by the first frost, the trees' twisted branches mimic hands reaching to the sky.On View
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