1916, George Luks, The Hitch Team (Horses in the Snow) -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Painted in cool tones of deep blue and crisp white, The Hitch Team depicts two horses pulling a solitary driver up a steep, curving road. Thick swaths of heavy pigment define the freshly fallen snow and the steam produced by a background chimney and tugboat. In 1912 Luks moved his home and studio to Washington Heights, New York, a neighborhood near Highbridge Park. The landscape in The Hitch Team is likely based on the high vistas that overlook the Harlem River near the artist's studio. Shortly after it was painted, it was acquired by the Newark, New Jersey, lawyer Arthur Egner. In an article about Egner's collection, fellow painter Guy Pène du Bois poignantly described this picture as both "fact and romance."
1916, George Luks, The Hitch Team (Horses in the Snow) -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Painted in cool tones of deep blue and crisp white, The Hitch Team depicts two horses pulling a solitary driver up a steep, curving road. Thick swaths of heavy pigment define the freshly fallen snow and the steam produced by a background chimney and tugboat. In 1912 Luks moved his home and studio to Washington Heights, New York, a neighborhood near Highbridge Park. The landscape in The Hitch Team is likely based on the high vistas that overlook the Harlem River near the artist's studio. Shortly after it was painted, it was acquired by the Newark, New Jersey, lawyer Arthur Egner. In an article about Egner's collection, fellow painter Guy Pène du Bois poignantly described this picture as both "fact and romance."