Siberian Dogs in the Snow

German Art around 1900, 1909/1910

Two creamy-white, long-haired dogs facing our right in a snowy field fill this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with visible, textured strokes in shades of white and ice blue. The dogs have floppy ears and long muzzles. They both stand with heads lowered, focused on something out of view to the right. Their coats are painted with strokes of parchment and ivory white with shading in arctic and sky blue. Their bodies cast blue shadows on the snow beneath them, and dried, flax-yellow twigs angled to our left poke out from the ground around them. The artist signed the painting near the lower right corner, “F Marc.”
Artist
German Art around 1900
Date
1909/1910
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
80.5 × 114 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Public domain, CC0

Image description

Two creamy-white, long-haired dogs facing our right in a snowy field fill this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with visible, textured strokes in shades of white and ice blue. The dogs have floppy ears and long muzzles. They both stand with heads lowered, focused on something out of view to the right. Their coats are painted with strokes of parchment and ivory white with shading in arctic and sky blue. Their bodies cast blue shadows on the snow beneath them, and dried, flax-yellow twigs angled to our left poke out from the ground around them. The artist signed the painting near the lower right corner, “F Marc.”

German Art around 1900