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The image depicts a winter landscape with a high horizon showing snow-covered hills, leafless trees, and two snow-topped structures below. The scene is detailed with fine, linear brushstrokes creating a crosshatched texture. The color palette is monochromatic with various shades of gray. In the foreground, there are patches of snow around a reflective body of water, with sparse, bare trees on both sides.
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The image depicts a winter landscape with a high horizon showing snow-covered hills, leafless trees, and two snow-topped structures below. The scene is detailed with fine, linear brushstrokes creating a crosshatched texture. The color palette is monochromatic with various shades of gray. In the foreground, there are patches of snow around a reflective body of water, with sparse, bare trees on both sides.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Winter Poem

Charles Jac Young

Date
1934
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.38 × 18.57 cm (8 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 27.62 × 33.02 cm (10 7/8 × 13 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1508
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968)
Time span
1926 to 1950
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • Landscape
  • Snow
  • Winter
  • Trees
  • Pond
  • landscape
Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower left in plate: C. Jac Young; lower right in graphite: C. Jac Young; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Winter Poem

Marks

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B [circled]

Watermarks

BFK

NGA object ID 169727. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.