Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds
Audio Exhibition
Snow Landscape
Hello, I am Jessica Spradling, the museum’s Art Bridges Fellow. I will be reading the label for the painting Snow Landscape, in Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds.
One of Picasso’s few winter scenes, Snow Landscape elegantly captures a gauzy curtain of snow as it falls across a tree-lined field. Like the Impressionists, Picasso used color to generate atmosphere in the scene. Modulated tones of white, beige, grey, and brown combine to communicate the dreamlike tranquility of this rare weather event in Paris. The artist’s talent for transporting viewers is clear: Snow Landscape instantly delivers us into the middle of the storm, capturing the peace, power, and quiet splendor of the winter scene.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, active in France, 1881–1973), Snow Landscape, Paris, 1924−25, oil on canvas, Philip Journo, Paris © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society, (ARS), New York, Courtesy American Federation of Arts 24 x 19 11/16 in. (61 x 50 cm)
Verbal Description
Hello, I am Jessica Spradling, the museum’s Art Bridges Fellow. I will be reading a description of the painting Snow Landscape in Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds.
Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist who lived from 1881 to 1973, painted Snow Landscape in oil on canvas between 1924 and 1925 in Paris. It is in the collection of Philip Journo, Paris.
A vertically oriented painting, Snow Landscape measures 24 by 19 and eleven-sixteenths inches or 61 by 50 centimeters. Here, the artist captures a landscape of four multi-branched gnarled brown trees covered in snow. The branches of each tree, devoid of leaves, interweave and overlap, creating a tangled web. Behind the trees, the sky is grey and white, representing a cloudy, snowy expanse.