Winter in Weehawken / Henry Reuterdahl
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1931.15
- Title
- Winter in Weehawken
- Artist
- Henry Reuterdahl
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1871-1925
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1907
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- New Jersey (state)
- Hudson (county)
- Weehawken (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- New Jersey (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Hudson (county)
- Creation Place 5
- Weehawken (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Albert M. Todd
- Style/Group/Movement
- American Impressionism
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.r.: HR / '07
- Dimensions
- 102 cm x 127.4 cm (40 3/16 in. x 50 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- This winter landscape scene is painted in light pastel colors including, white, blue, pink and gray. The artist has used vigorous brushstrokes and the paint has been applied thickly on the canvas. The scenery is not painted in detail but done in an impressionistic manner.
- In the foreground, a snow-covered hill slopes downward from the upper right side of the composition to the lower left. There is one tall tree that frames the scene on the far right and several others clustered on the left. In the middleground area, seen through the branches of these trees, there are factories and buildings of a town. Also, there are figures ice skating on a pond, at the far left of the composition. In the far distance, seen over the edge of the slope, is the skyline of a city, the shapes of skyscrapers silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
- Subject Matter
- This landscape painting by Henry Reuterdahl portrays a winter scene of the city of Weehawken, New Jersey, which lies across the Hudson river from Manhattan. Reuterdahl has painted this view from a point on the cliffs that give the city its name. (In the Lenape indian language, "We-awk-en" means "rocks that look like rows of trees"). He shows the terrain of the snow-covered cliff in the foreground area and provides a view of Weehawken below, from the ice skating pond to the smokestacks of the factories along the river. In the far distance, can be seen the bluish skyline of New York city can be seen silhouetted against a cloudy winter sky.
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- atmospheric effects
- buildings and the land
- cultural landscapes
- cultural landscapes by location or context
- earth sciences concepts
- geography
- houses
- landscapes (environments)
- modern and contemporary art
- natural landscapes
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- precipitation
- scientific concepts
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1145 x 909
- File Size
- 141 KB
- Record
- 1931.15
- Link to this Item
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"Winter in Weehawken; Henry Reuterdahl." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1931.15/1931.15.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 30, 2024.