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Walter Launt PalmerWinter Scene
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In this prototypical oil painting, Walter Launt Palmer's title as "the painter of the American winter" can be vividly and brilliantly seen. As an impressionist painter that emerged at the turn of the 20th century, Palmer took great interest in the picturesque American landscape, though he particularly focused on the rendering of this landscape glistening with snow. His pictures evoke an unreplicable natural serenity, and in this oil painting "The Winter Scene," Palmer invites us into a world of stillness. Just after a snowfall, with the trees still frothing with snow on their branches and the ground laid heavy with powder, Palmer captures the sun emerging upon this recently blanketed, peaceful world. The almost pointillist quality of his work is best seen in the water, where vivid colors like purple, yellow, and green dance along the liquid surface. In the shadows, too, we see a rich interplay of deep blues and yellows, perfectly executed through Palmer's technically astute mark-making. This work emerges from a time period in which the great American outdoors was being appreciated and reproduced, with Palmer and contemporaries like William Hart, Homer Dodge Martin, and Edward Gay leading this movement.
- Creator:Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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- Condition:Patch repair to upper right portion of canvas, presumably due to a previous small tear. New lining along the edges of canvas.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU163729469202
Walter Launt Palmer
Walter Launt Palmer was born in Albany, New York in 1854. He was the son of sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, and thus grew up around art and artists. When Palmer was in his teens, he began his formal artistic training with portraitist Charles Elliot and the famed landscape painter Frederic Church. The young artist’s work was first accepted for the National Academy of Design show in 1872, when he was only eighteen years old. Palmer traveled to Europe and studied in Paris from 1873 to 1876. While there one of his masters was Emil Auguste Carolus-Duran, whose influence is apparent in the controlled quality of Palmer’s mature works. Upon his return from France, Palmer resided in New York City for a few years, and in 1882 returned to Albany. By this time a consummate landscape painter, Palmer saw the vivid color potential of the snow and used it to great advantage. The gossamer effect he achieves in his paintings comes from his ability to capture the play between color and reflective light. The effectiveness of Palmer’s technique reflects the influence of academic precision, oriental delicacy (Palmer traveled to the Far East in 1899), and impressionist effect. In his art he was always conscious of the avant-garde and apt to experiment with color; for instance, Palmer was one of the first American painters to use blue shadows in his paintings of snow, which was, at the time, almost revolutionary. Unlike the broadly painted vistas of many of his contemporaries, Palmer imbued his interior woodland scenes with a sense of intimacy; he sought to capture the exquisite detail of the landscape and render it as an expression of a quiet moment, fixing in time one’s personal recollections of wintry beauty. Palmer’s paintings can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Butler Institute of American Art, and the Albany Institute of History and Art.
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