Winter
Framed: 34 1/2 × 44 3/8 inches (87.63 × 112.71 cm)
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Winter depicts the changes underway in Brooklyn at mid-century. A sawmill, smokestack and steamboats reflect industrial expansion, while the skating and fishing in the foreground suggest more rural aspects. Gignoux subtly modulated the colors through the sky and water creating a delicate, unifying atmosphere that gives a marvelous illusion of spatial depth and suggests that both strains of American life are compatible.
"The Acquisitions," Art Digest 8 (1 December 1933), 21;
"The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings," Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28;
NAMA 1933, 137;
NAMA 1941, 166;
NAMA 1959, 256;
James Thomas Flexner, That Wilder Image: The Paintings of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962), 314;
James Thomas Flexner, That Wilder Image: The Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer (New York: Dover Publications, 1970), 259;
Lois Marie Fink, "The Role of France in American Art, 1850-1870," Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1970, vi, 79n2, 550-51;
NAMA 1973, 252;
NAMA 1977, 51;
Joseph S. Czestochowski, The American Landscape Tradition: A Study and Gallery of Paintings (New York: Dutton, 1982), 80-81;
NAMA 1991, 86.