SOLD Winter Quiet

Provenance

Wyatt C. Hedrick, Fort Worth, Texas

Mildred Fender, Fort Worth, Texas, by descent from above

Estate of above

Sale, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, November 4, 2022, lot 67083, from above

Related Works

Woods in Winter, ca. 1912, oil on canvas, 46⅛ x 56⅛ inches, signed lower right; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Forest Vistas, 1932, oil on canvas, 40⅜ x 52¼ inches, signed lower right; Palmer Museum of Art of The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Note: John Fabian Carlson was a celebrated landscape painter. He created numerous depictions of snowy tree groves. In his book Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting, the artist emphasized the importance of the outdoors to his art, asserting, “Study direct from nature [..] Nature is forever providing for the artist untabulated surprises; it is for these that he is to be envied. It is the artist’s privilege and prerogative to capture these miracles and to transmute them into an expressive form.”[1]

Wyatt C. Hedrick (1888–1964) was a distinguished architect whose firm created many landmark buildings across Fort Worth. His daughter, Mildred Fender (1927–2021), was a philanthropist and active proponent of the arts.

[1] John Fabian Carlson, Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting (New York: Dover Publications, 1973), 11.

Artist Biography