Winter Landscape

The Winter Landscape was painted by John Hardrick (1891-1968) an American painter who was influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, and adopted their impressionist style with its emotional sense of color. 

He favored the picturesque environs of Brown County, south of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he found woodlands and waterways.

In Winter Landscape, all seems pristine in this fantasy-like snowscape, with decaying twigs and leaves on the forest floor well concealed in a serene setting by the snow.

Likewise one may find tranquility and life free from stress and pain, perhaps in a rustic cabin nestled in a peaceful wood or in the rhythm of waves in a remote lighthouse up on a high cliff at water’s edge.

Winter Landscape, by John W Hardrick, 1945. Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (http://www.imamuseum.org/)

Modified from an article at JAMA