Winter 1946

Winter 1946
Artist Andrew Wyeth
Year 1946
Type Tempera on board
Dimensions 79.7 cm × 121.9 cm (3138 in × 48 in)
Location North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

Winter 1946 is a 1946 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It depicts a boy running down a hill in the winter.

The painting is housed at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1]

Creation

According to the Wyeth, he worked on the painting for the whole winter of 1946. It was the first tempera painting he made after the death of his father, N. C. Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth said about the picture: "It was me, at a loss—that hand drifting in the air was my free soul, groping."[2] Behind the hill was the location where Wyeth's father had died. Wyeth said he regretted that he never had painted his father's portrait, but that "the hill finally became a portrait of him".[2]

References

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