Maurice Cullen
Ice Harvest
Artist
Maurice Cullen
Saint John's, Newfoundland, 1866 – Chambly, Quebec, 1934
Title
Ice Harvest
Date
1914
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
144.1 x 177.5 cm
Credits
Purchase, A. Sidney Dawes Fund, inv. 1941.729
Collection
Quebec and Canadian Art
When Maurice Cullen returned from France, he adapted the lessons of Impressionism to local subject matter, exploring the changing effects of light and the unique atmosphere of the Canadian landscape, particularly in winter. He found that “snow borrows the colours of the sky and sun. It is blue, it is mauve, it is grey, even black, but never entirely white.”
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