art talk
a conversation about fine and folk art
05/27/09
Ha! Not quite, but here is a wonderful Monet snow scene called “Snow Covered Road at Honfieur” that I’ve always liked (well, I like all of Monet’s snow scenes).
It’s in the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris. Here in the gallery, we have a terrific snow scene by one of Monet’s colleague’s, William Samuel Horton (1865 - 1936). William Horton was an American, born in Michigan, and schooled at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. He then went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian and became friend and neighbor to the Monet, Pissarro, Whistler and Derain.
Patricia Jobe Pierce of Pierce Galleries said of him “Horton’s thick, luscious brushwork is more French than it is American. And he’s a favorite at John Tucker Fine Arts!