Snowfall in the Meadow

Artist William Savery Bucklin

Period1892

Place MadeColts Neck, New Jersey, USA

Date1892

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions25 × 48 in. (63.5 × 121.9 cm)

SignedSigned lower right, "W. S. Bucklin 92"

ClassificationsLandscapes & Still Life

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 2017

Object number2017.1.1

DescriptionView of a snow covered meadow with a stream running through it, bordered by trees in the left and right distance and with a large tree in the right middle distance. Snow is still falling from a gray sky.
Curatorial RemarksOne of the two most important and highly developed paintings by William Savery Bucklin to turn up since the early 1980s. The painting appears to depict an area of boggy meadows in Colts Neck, NJ, that were adjacent to the Bucklin family farm and cannery. This area is now covered by the Swimming River Reservoir. Much of his later work after 1909 consists of endless, generic studies of trees. This work was produced at a time when the artist was depicting actual places in Monmouth County.

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