Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Torvald Hoyer created many images based on his travels, often painting them from memory many years later. In this painting the tiny dabs of paint create a soft, hazy image, evoking the effect of snow on the landscape. This scene was probably inspired by a childhood memory, and the small figure pulling a sled may be the artist himself, looking for adventure in the unexpected spring snow.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Torvald Arnst Hoyer, born Copenhagen, Denmark 1872-died Chicago, IL 1949
- Date
- 1937
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 29 7/8 x 24 in. (76.0 x 61.0 cm)
- Type
- Painting
- Folk Art
