First Snow

© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © Delawar…
© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
First Snow
© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

First Snow

Date1959
Artist (American painter, 1917–2009)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions13 1/8 × 21 1/8 in. (33.3 × 53.7 cm)
frame: 22 3/4 × 30 1/4 in. (57.8 × 76.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Phelps, 1964
Object number1964-12
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis painting depicts Kuerners' Farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The Kuerners were neighbors of Andrew Wyeth, and this is one of several studies for the painting Groundhog Day (at the Philadelphia Museum of Art), which depicts this scene glimpsed through the window of the the house.