Snow on Alden Brook
Snow on Alden Brook
Artist
Neil G. Welliver
(1929 - 2005)
Date1983
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 96 × 96 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2008.8
Signedl.r.: Welliver
Accession number
2008.8
On View
Not on viewCollections
Label TextThis scene is meant to transport you. Seen from a distance, the falling snow provides a gentle, atmospheric haze to the forest – a bit of movement in otherwise dormant woods. But witnessed up close, the meticulous application of each speck of snow appears as a static, deliberate dot. Painted at a massive scale, Welliver wanted to immerse viewers in a likeness of the natural world that he came to love while living in Maine. By capturing this memory in paint, Welliver offers a gentle reminder that he has forever frozen in time an otherwise fleeting moment of beauty.
