20th-Century Danish School, Snow Landscape With Track

20th-Century Danish School, Snow Landscape With TrackThis impressionistic early 20th century Danish oil painting depicts a snow covered landscape with track. The dazzling effects of light hitting snow rendered by an experienced hand. When boots sink through into muddy earth and punctuate a blanket of white. Its the kind of day that induces a squint as you leave the home, the brightness somehow intensified. Its hard to capture but handled superbly. Note the subtle variations on the track with its pockets

and below our feet

He looks towards the garden

with her arms by her side

' thought he

His works are held in several museums

which had two public houses

on the far left

with all three providing an insightful narrative on Victorian society

The two travelled together

she spots a familiar face - her small white cat

Perhaps he remains an apt metaphor for the ‘jazz age’ in general

Laying upon a homespun bridge