TitleSnowbound
Artist
Henry Hobart Nichols
(1869-1962)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 36 in.
Framed: 34 5/8 × 40 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.
SignedSigned lower left: "Hobart Nichols"
SubmissionNA diploma exchange presentation, 1942
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number935-P
Label TextHobart Nichols' expressive depiction of a group of buildings closed in by a winter storm epitomizes a feeling of isolation. The artist wrote of a similar scene, "Who could have hoped to survive the storms and rigor of bleak winter in such a location?" In Nichols' scene, the storm is an aggressor, filling the sky with darkness and offering no reprieve.