Under the Hemlocks

Provenance

Private collection, New York

Exhibited

The National Academy of Design, New York, New York, The 1932 Winter Exhibition, November 26- December 21, 1932, no. 169.

Berkshire Playhouse, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, The Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, August 27-September 11, 1921.

Literature

“Stockbridge’s Thirteenth Exhibit: Full of Meritorious Examples,” American Art News 20, no. 50 (September 17, 1921): 6.

Peter Falk, The Annual Exhibition Record of the National Academy of Design 1901-1950 (Sound View Press, 1990), 398.

Related Works

Silent Dawn, by 1919, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, signed lower left: Palmer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

White World, 1932, oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 30 1/8 inches, signed lower left: W.L. Palmer; The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York

Note

Palmer was best known for his snow scenes and his sensitive handling of sunlight falling upon snow to create colored reflection. His paintings were immensely popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries earning him the title, “painter of the American winter.” Palmer’s work is held in major museum collections throughout the United States including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.