This painting shows a snowy landscape with boats on a pale green river. Closest to us, there are thin, leafless trees in a snow-covered field, and on the other bank beyond the river are more thin trees with pale, hazy buildings visible in the distance. In the center, a gray-and-white house appears to sit on the edge of the water, one of the boats resting on the land next to it. A curving fence separates the white field, extending from the house towards the lower right corner of the painting. There are some more indistinct objects on the land in shades of red and black. The sky above the…
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Boathouse, Winter, Harlem River

painter Ernest Lawson (American, born Canada, 1873 - 1939)

c. 1916

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 102.55 × 127 cm (40 3/8 × 50 in.) ; framed: 141.61 × 166.37 cm (55 3/4 × 65 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1916)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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