Robert Boyle

“First Snowfall” Naturalistic Winter Mountain Landscape of a River Through Trees

1990

Winter Landscape scene of a creek with a bare tree dominating the painting. A fence line runs along behind the tree and there are distant shapes in the background. Dimensions withou...

Blue, purple, and green toned winter landscape pastel drawing by German-American painter, Wolf Kahn. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Framed and matted in a gold frame...

This intimate oil painting presents a stylized winter landscape rendered in soft pastel tones. Snow-covered trees stand in tranquil silence along the banks of a frozen river, their forms reflected faintly in the ice. In the foreground, a small wooden boat lies moored at the river’s edge, contributing to the scene’s serene, contemplative mood. Percy’s delicate handling of light and color – a pale sunlit sky against subtle blues and violets of snow imbues the work with a poetic calm. The atmosphere and decorative simplification of the composition are strongly reminiscent of Gustaf Fjaestad’s celebrated Nordic winter scenes, capturing what contemporaries described as the silent, majestic beauty of Swedish winters with an almost mystical tranquility. In its quiet harmony and refined palette, the painting echoes Fjaestad’s approach to portraying winter “ruled by a pure and quiet spirit,” while remaining distinctly Percy’s own vision of nature’s repose. Arthur Percy was a Swedish painter and designer whose artistic development bridged academic training and modernist influences. He studied at the Konstnärsförbundets (Artists’ Association) school in Stockholm under prominent artists Richard Bergh and Eugène Jansson...

"December" is a poetic oil painting by Marcel Demagny depicting a typical winter landscape with snow-covered peaks, rivers and trees. This piece is n...